#it

Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#little-girl #love

Across the years I will walk with you - in deep green forests; on shores of sand: and when our time on earth is through, in heaven, too, you will have my hand ↗

— Robert Sexton

#love #love

New York is made up of millions of different people, and they all come here looking for something ↗

— Lindsey Kelk

#love #new-york-city #love

If you haven't guessed it already," I said, something fervent and resonating slipping into my tone, "I need you, too." "Is that a yes?" he asked, pushing his fingers through my hair, fanning it out around my sholders and searching my face intently. "Please let it be yes," he said with a gravelly edge. "Stay with me tonight. Let me hold you, even if that's all it is. Let me keep you safe. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#cute #hush-hush #love #nora-and-patch #nora-grey

They told me I was not to draw. ↗

— Mike Diana

#obscenity #censorship

I have nothing to give but my heart so full and these empty hands." "They're not empty now. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #love #romance #love

It takes a fearless, unflinching love and deep humility to accept the universe as it is. The most effective way he knew to accomplish that, the most powerful tool at his disposal, was the scientific method, which over time winnows out deception. It can't give you absolute truth because science is a permanent revolution, always subject to revision, but it can give you successive approximations of reality. ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #cosmos #fearless #humanity #humility

It is the mind that speaks a woman's heart, not the vaginal walls. ↗

— Mary Roach

#sexuality #love

[Neighbor is] not he whom I find in my path, but rather he in whose path I place myself, he whom I approach and actively seek. ↗

— Gustavo Gutiérrez

#theology

You call a star a star, and say it is just a ball of matter moving on a mathematical course. But that is merely how you see it. By so naming things and describing them you are only inventing your own terms about them. And just as speech is invention about objects and ideas, so myth is invention about truth. ↗

— Humphrey Carpenter

#invention #myths #mathematics