#is

if you want to cry. cry in front of me. I should know - Cristian Grey ↗

As for the body, it is solid and strong and curious and full of detail: it wants to polish itself; it wants to love another body; it is the only vessel in the world that can hold, in a mix of power and sweetness: words, song, gesture, passion, ideas, ingenuity, devotion, merriment, vanity, and virtue. ↗

— Mary Oliver

#love #sweetness #wisdom #love

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in His love than in your own weakness. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#love #love

I'm a woman; in so many ways I've been programmed to please. I took the job and spent time hunkered over figures, budgets, charts, and fiscal-year projections. I tried, but I hated it. "Working at a job you don't like is the same as going to prison every day," my father used to say. He was right. I felt imprisoned by an impressive title, travel, perks, and a good salary. On the inside, I was miserable and lonely, and I felt as if I was losing myself. I spent weekends working on reports no one read, and I gave presentations that I didn't care about. It made me feel like a sellout and, worse, a fraud. Now set free, like any inmate I had to figure out what to do with the rest of my life. ↗

— Kathleen Flinn

#rest-of-my-life #women #work #life

This is my skin. This is not your skin, yet you are still under it. ↗

— Iain Thomas

#intimacy #love #skin #love

We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#discipline #writing #art

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris. ↗

— Emma Calin

#love #lovers #paris #passion #romance

It was you Who opened me Looked into my soul To study me You revealed you To uncover me. ↗