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Valéry used to speak of those people who die in an accident because they are unwilling to let go of their umbrellas; how many subjects repressed, refracted, blinded as to their true sexuality, because they are unwilling to let go of a stereotype. ↗

— Roland Barthes

#life #stereotypes #life

Have you ever been torn between two impossibilities and knew in your heart that no matter which way you went or which path you chose that you were doomed to unhappiness? ↗

— Maya Banks

#choices-and-consequences #consequences #life #unhappiness #life

The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#acknowledgement #contentment #happiness #life #realization

Sage.” He laughed. “I’m into anything, so long as you’re with me. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#contentment #happiness #love #sydney-sage #love

You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#happiness-life #love #relationship-advice #relationships #life

The bitterest hardships, the most daunting trials; none of these are burdens if it means being with you. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#happiness #hardship #love #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not. ↗

— Daniel Gilbert

#love

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it ↗

— Jacques-Yves Cousteau

#dolphin #happiness #joy #love #man

I had never felt such happiness, not with one man or two or three, never felt this feeling before...this feeling of...completeness? Yes, that was it, completeness! I simply didn't need anyone else. ↗

— Sergei Lukyanenko

#happiness #love #sex #love

I had known another world. It is impossible to give it a name. There are words like enchantment, words like bliss, but they didn't say it, they were stupid words. No words really said it. There was nothing to say about it except that I had known it, it had been mine. It was the one real thing, more real than the world. ↗

— Scott Spencer

#love #love