#ip

I wish I could print up a sign and tape it on my forehead. I OFFICIALLY DO NOT WANT TO KISS ETHAN WATE. NOW PLEASE LET ME BE FRIENDS WITH HIM. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#olivia-durand #beauty

‎"You will never reach your dreams without honoring others along the way. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#john-paul-warren #leadership #sozo #voice-of-the-nations #dreams

But the young educated adults of the 90s -- who were, of course, the children of the same impassioned infidelities and divorces Mr. Updike wrote about so beautifully -- got to watch all this brave new individualism and self-expression and sexual freedom deteriorate into the joyless and anomic self-indulgence of the Me Generation. Today's sub-40s have different horrors, prominent among which are anomie and solipsism and a peculiarly American loneliness: the prospect of dying without once having loved something more than yourself. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#norman-mailer #philip-roth #solipsism #beauty

But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog. ↗

— Richard Matheson

#love #beauty

When we are passionately in love with our Prince, we put Him above all else--not just in theory, but also practically, in every moment of our day-to-day lives. We do not live for the applause of heaven. Our longings are not for people's approval but only for more and more of Him. We are marked by an effortless, unshakable strength that is found in the presence of our perfect Lover. ↗

— Leslie Ludy

#relationships #single-living #beauty

The school discussed friendship often. It is, they learned, one of the things man can least afford to lack; necessary to the good life, and beautiful in itself. Between friends is no need of justice, for neither wrong nor inequality can exist. ↗

— Mary Renault (Fire From Heaven)

#beauty

I learned that love can end in one night, that great friends can become great strangers, that strangers can become best friends, that we never finish to know and understand someone completely, that the “never ever again” will happen again and that “forever” always ends, that the one that wants it can, will achieve it and get it, that the one that risks it never looses anything, that physique, figure and beauty attracts but personality makes one fall in love. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#fall-in-love #forever #girlfriend #love #lovers

We may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out of control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us kinship where all is represented as separation." (Defy the Space That Separates, The Nation, October 7, 1996) ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#kinship #poetry #power-of-words #beauty

You know what I like most about people? Pets.
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— Jarod Kintz

#funny #humor #misanthrope #people #pet

To the degree you experience God's love towards you - seeing you as beautiful and radiant - to that degree sex won't ruin your life. ↗

— Timothy Keller

#relationships #sex #spirituality #beauty