#hip

In the best of all possible worlds, February 14 is a pleasant and sentimental opportunity to lavish your partner with attention or move your relationship to the next level. ↗

— Pepper Schwartz

#best #february #lavish #level #move

Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#philosophy #theology #wonder #worship #attitude

Dear friends, he began, there is no timetable for happiness; it moves, I think, according to rules of its own. When I was a boy I thought I'd be happy tomorrow, as a young man I thought it would be next week; last month I thought it would be never. Today, I know it is now. Each of us, I suppose has at least one person who thinks that our manifest faults are worth ignoring; I have found mine, and am content. When we are far from home we think of home; I, who am happy today, think of those in Scotland for whom such happiness might seem elusive; may such powers as listen to what is said by people like me, in olive groves like this, grant to those who want a friendship a friend, attend to the needs of those who have little, hold the hand of those who are lonely, allow Scotland, our place, our country, to sing in the language of her choosing that song she has always wanted to sing, which is of brotherhood, which is of love. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#friendship #love #scotland #friendship

Good teams are committed to the team mission and to each other personally. Good leaders inspire and build this commitment and trust. ↗

— Lee Ellis

#leadership #military #business

Never respond to an angry person with a fiery comeback, even if he deserves it...Don't allow his anger to become your anger. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#anger-management #ataraxy #bushido #inner-peace #inspirational

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying. ↗

— Dorothy Parker

#cynicism #love #lying #passion #love

Too fair to worship, too divine to love. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

#fair #love #to love #too #worship

They were ridiculous times. After I won my world championship in 1976, I went to Japan. ↗

— Barry Sheene

#championship #i #japan #ridiculous #times

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times. ↗

— Sam Sheppard

#deep #father #full #had #i