#ions

All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#love-story #relationships #love

Diversity and independence are important because the best collective decisions are the product of disagreement and contest, not consensus or compromise. ↗

— James Surowiecki

#decisions #diversity #diversity

Come near me and I'll rip your wings off and beat you with them. ↗

— Rachel Vincent

#niederwald #rachel-vincent #sabine #diversity

I don't like Paradise, As they probably don't have obsessions there. ↗

— Alda Merini

#heaven #materialism #paradise #possessions #afterlife

They have the unique ability to listen to one story and understand another. ↗

— Pandora Poikilos

#chaos #gossip #misunderstanding #gossip

I thought about how the past can become so small. An entire day, 24 separate, heavy hours, becomes the size of a tiny brown leaf falling from a tree. Before you know it, a whole year is just a pile of dead leaves on the ground. The year or so I’d spent in love with Chad was starting to feel so long ago, swept away by the wind. I knew that this year would soon feel far away too. ↗

— Kimberly Novosel

#healing #in-love #leaves #love #pain

I love making observations. That one is a classic example. ↗

— Stephen Colbert

#observations #twitter #love

Once," Fran says, settling against the worktable, folding her arms, "I knew this kid who very bravely and bossily came out of the closet when she was only fourteen years old. She told me then that we can't choose who we love. We just love the people we love, no mattter what anyone else might want for us. Wasn't that you? ↗

— Madeleine George

#coming-out #gay-and-lesbian #honesty #love #relationships

Cassie: What would it cost me if I kissed him? What would it cost me if I didn’t? ↗

— Melanie Cusick-Jones

#love #love

Definition of a relationship - an enduring, mutually-agreed upon connection or union, which fulfills certain needs of the individuals involved and the society in which they live. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#love #relationships #love