#knowing

So many believe that it is love that grows, but it is the knowing that grows and love simply expands to contain it. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#love #relationships #love

She watches Simon's profile as he drives, concentrating, but he keeps turning to her, and every time he does so, he is smiling. He doesn't seem to care, and she wonders if, actually, he wants to be caught. In some ways she does, because she knows, already, albeit crazily swiftly, that she wants more of this man, that once was never, ever going to be enough. ↗

— Sarah Rayner

#knowing #lust #passion #love

Once I faced a female with diamond skin," Nix said breathlessly. "I was transfixed - even as she was choking the life out of me." "Really?" " No, I saw that character on X men. I just wanted to commiserate. Alas, I have no weaknesses." "Except your insanity," Lucia pointed out. sigh. "Well played, Archer. then carry on... ↗

— Kresley Cole

#nix-the-ever-knowing #men

Rather than trying to master nature we should start with the basics of trying to understand nature, cooperate with nature. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#knowing #understanding-the-nature-of-god #nature

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything. ↗

— Henry Hazlitt

#knowing #memory #practice #science

Every word, every image used for God is a distortion more than a description. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#knowledge #mysticism #unknowing #description

To sense the peace of extinguished passion Happiness in not knowing the ultimate knowledge ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#happiness #knowing #knowledge #literature #literature-quotes

Being on the run, having to change the way that you do business, being unable to plan in a safe and secure environment, always looking over your shoulder, knowing that some day somebody's going to knock on your door and it's going to be your last. ↗

— John Abizaid

#being #business #change #day #door

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ↗

— Scott Adams

#allowing #creativity #keep #knowing #make

I'm greedy for that satisfaction of doing something hard and knowing that, even though I was afraid I couldn't do it, that somehow I can deliver. ↗

— Alan Alda

#deliver #doing #even #greedy #hard