#fe

If happiness is a garden, I´m the most beautiful flower in it. ↗

— Susana Carmo Silva

#inspirational #beauty

You see, I don’t know why I did it,” he declared as if he had just discovered the cure for cancer. But the only thing he had discovered was yet another way to piss me off. ↗

— Danka V.

#life

Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

#writing #life

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime. ↗

— Mike Rutherford

#another #around #carry #committed #crime

He settled in beside me, and I curled into him. Cocooned in Wes. God, it felt so good. “Thank you,” I whispered. “I’ve never felt so amazing.” “I wanted you in my life from the beginning, Mal. Any way I could have you.” He snuggled me closer. “Even if it meant just as friends.” I couldn’t help snorting. “Thank God that’s not the case.” He chuckled and gave me a squeeze. “Amen, my friend. ↗

— Missy Welsh

#friends-to-lovers #life

Ever since they invented Hello Kitty, the world hasn't been the same. You can safely chart the rise of The Culture of Cute since that flat-faced skank started showing up everywhere. ↗

— Celia Rivenbark

#life

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. And, when one begins to understand oneself, not only the conscious but all the hidden parts of oneself as well, then there comes tranquility. Meditation demands constant watchfulness, constant awareness of every word, thought and feeling, which reveals the state of our own being, and as that is arduous, we escape into every kind of conformity, deceptive thing and call it meditation. ↗

— Kalidas Joshi

#life

That is what you're making of the end of your mother's life, child. What will you make of your own? ↗

— Kage Baker

#life

Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life.' 'You really must not say things like that before Dorian, Harry.' 'Before which Dorian? The one who is pouring out tea for us, or the one in the picture?' 'Before either.' 'I should like to come to the theatre with you, Lord Henry,' said the lad. 'Then you shall come; and you will come, too, Basil, won't you?' 'I can't, really. I would sooner not. I have a lot of work to do.' 'Well, then you and I will go alone, Mr. Gray.' 'I should like that awfully.' The painter bit his lip and walked over, cup in hand, to the picture. 'I shall stay with the real Dorian,' he said, sadly. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#fiction #life

Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. ↗

— Paul Ryan

#administration #agreed #being #capital #democratic