#ions

I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all I really wanted was skin, just skin. ↗

— André Aciman

#relationship

The telling and hearing of stories is a bonding ritual that breaks through illusions of separateness and activates a deep sense of our collective interdependence. ↗

— Annette Simmons

#illusions #interdependence #ritual #stories #storytelling

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don't have to tell you that. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#relationships #music

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#female #healing #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love

I took your name when I took those vows I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. ↗

— The Band Perry

#music-lyrics #relationships #music

I used to love you. But now, I loved you even more. ↗

— Kate Racho

#relationships #love

All music is what awakens from you when you are reminded by the instruments, It is not the violins and the cornets....it is not the oboe nor the beating drums--nor the notes of the baritone singing his sweet romanza....nor those of the men's chorus, It is nearer and farther than they. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#music #poetry #men

Pop music is like an auditory cup of coffee. It has no nutritional value but it gets you going. ↗

— Jim Moorman

#humorous-quotations #humorous-quotes #music

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#god #life #relationship #spirituality #change

It felt like I had a thousand packs of Strawberry Pop Rocks simultaneously detonating in my chest, and I dilated at least eight centimeters! ↗

— Piper Faust

#humor-relationships #southern-fiction #relationship