#ip

Most friendships are bound to a specific time, place or season. Some women characterize these relationships as having expiration dates or shelf lives, because friendships tend to run their natural course. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#dating

I love clean sheets. It's the simultaneous reminiscence of how they got dirtied to begin with, and hopeful anticipation of what stories they will live to tell next time you are standing fatefully in front of the washing machine. ↗

— Kristie LeVangie

#clean #dirty #life-experience #sex #sexuality

In life, it is important that we act fast. If you don't act fast and act now, someone else will do exactly what you have thought of doing. Someone else would have fired while you were spending time aiming. ↗

— Jan Mckingley Hilado

#dating #relationships #success #dating

Education is that component which brings in a meaningful relationship between the happenings around us and how our senses experience them. ↗

— Tito Rajarshi Mukhopadhyay

#education #meaning #meaningful #relationship #education

But what the long walk had not done was reveal the cause of the inherent distaste that had sprung out of nowhere overtaking her there under the tree. On the cold, damp grass, or up against the rough tree trunk. He had done it many times without a second thought, and in more challenging situations. It would have been nothing at all to wrap her long legs around his waist, brace one hand against the tree trunk, hold her tight with his other arm, and give the lady exactly what she wanted. But for some reason he had not been able to do it. For the first time in his life, his body had been willing but his mind had not. Labeling the experience unpleasant would be a severe understatement. ↗

— Evangeline Collins

#gideon-honey #her-ladyship-s-companion #experience

No experience of the failure of his policy could shake his belief in its essential excellence. ↗

— Babara Tuchman

#leadership #experience

It's one thing to have a divinely inspired love given to you to experience and share; it's something else altogether to recognize it when it appears. Our job is to go on being humbled and grateful that we should get to experience such a thing in our lifetimes, and preserve its magic by doing the most responsible thing possible to keep it alive . . . Just keep saying yes. ↗

— Mark Fiore

#humor #inspirational #love #marriage #memoir

In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it’s printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you. ↗

— John Green

#authorship #books #e-books #editors #publishing

. . .fasting gives me singularly happy afternoons. ↗

— Adalbert de Vogüé

#christianity #fasting #spiritual-disciplines #experience

If the only thing that you are good at is convincing others that you are good, then being in biz with you is bad experience. ↗

— Orrin Woodward

#experience