#kin

Some of the dairy people, who were also out of doors on the first Sunday evening after their engagement, heard her impulsive speeches, ecstasized to fragments, though they were too far off to hear the words discoursed; noted the spasmodic catch in her remarks, broken into syllables by the leapings of her heart, as she walked leaning on his arm; her contented pauses, the occassional laugh upon which her soul seemed to ride - the laugh of a woman in company with the man she loves and has won from all other women - unlike anything else in nature. They marked the buoyancy of her tread, like the skim of a bird which has not yet alighted. ↗

— Thomas Hardy

#walking #love

Such kindness wasn't a gift but a goad, scraping against one's skin like a yoke of thorns. She would have preferred him stiff, defensive, even offensive. ↗

— Lauren Willig

#kindness #love #men #pride #love

كل الحكايات لازم تعدى يا حسام.المهم ما نتكسرش. أنا لو حاحكى لك لازم تأخد اجازة و تقعد تعيط جنبى.لكن أنا كنت بقوم فورا.مفيش وقت اضيعه.يمكن الحياة قى أمريكا بتعلمك كا ينفعش توقف لحظة واحدة و الا حد تانى هياخد مكانك ↗

— سحر الموجي

#love #love

I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#trousers #walking #love

Really good writing has purpose and that purpose should be to shape other minds to desire truth and a more noble purpose in life and to become more thoughtful and knowledgable about important things like being kind and loving towards all living beings on our planet and not just humans but all animals. ↗

— Susan Waterfield

#existence #meaning #purpose #seeking-truth #writing

If you're making love to a man of God, then God must endorse your lovemaking. ↗

— Eileen Pollack

#humor #lovemaking #religion #love

In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#recovery #love

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence are not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #american-history #civil-rights-movement #conflict-resolution #courage

True kindness ennobles the giver ↗

— Jocelyn Murray

#kindness #love #sincerity #love

To-day the woman is Mrs. Richard Roe, to-morrow Mrs. John Doe, and again Mrs. James Smith according as she changes masters, and she has so little self-respect that she does not see the insult of the custom. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#change