#fe

If only it were possible to love without injury – fidelity isn’t enough: I had been faithful to Anne and yet I had injured her. The hurt is in the act of possession: we are too small in mind and body to possess another person without pride or to be possessed without humiliation. In a way I was glad that my wife had struck out at me again – I had forgotten her pain for too long, and this was the only kind of recompense I could give her. Unfortunately the innocent are always involved in any conflict. Always, everywhere, there is some voice crying from a tower. ↗

— Graham Greene

#life #love #philosophy #faith

Laughter is more than just a pleasurable activity...When people laugh together, they tend to talk and touch more and to make eye contact more frequently. ↗

— Gretchen Rubin

#happiness #laughter #pleasure #relationships #fun

Oh God, Oh God we’re all gonna die doesn’t really fit the definition of banter, now does it? ↗

— Lilith Saintcrow

#death #funny #humor #life #death

trust your heart, if the seas catch fire, and live by love though the stars walk backward. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#life #love #death

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself. ↗

— Will Durant

#life-is-evil #schopenhauer #death

There is a certain seductiveness about dead things. You can ill treat, alter and recolour what's dead. It won’t complain. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#death #life #science #death

She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-moments #laughter #womens-inspirational #dreams

For I conclude that the enemy is not lipstick, but guilt itself; that we deserve lipstick, if we want it, AND free speech; we deserve to be sexual AND serious--or whatever we please; we are entitled to wear cowboy boots to our own revolution. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#enemy

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. ↗

— Rumi

#healing #scars #suffering #broken

You'll find, my friend, that what you love will take you places you never dreamed you'd go. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#love #dreams