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Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our inner being. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#love #relationships #life

Although I notice there is never a truly good time to have a nice long chat with one´s mother-in-law, unless you are having an extraordinary life and marriage and your mother-in-law is, say, Maureen Dowd, or Indira Gandhi. Someone of that ilk. ↗

— Suzanne Finnamore

#cheating #deception #divorce #infidelity #marriage

The past is like a great stone that lies on the bed of a river, hidden from view but shaping the currents of the water as it flows by. You cannot read the currents in the river of your own life, and navigate them safely, if you do not understand what causes them. You must know your past, for it will shape your future. ↗

— Derdriu in Viking Warrior by Judson Roberts

#past #life

A life thus names a restless activeness, a destructive-creative force-presence that does not coincide fully with any specific body. A life tear the fabric of the actual without ever coming fully 'out' in a person, place, or thing. A life points to ... 'matter in variation that enters assemblages and leaves them. A life is a vitality proper not to any individual but to 'pure immanence,' or that protean swarm that is not actual though it is real: 'A life contains only virtuals. It is made of virtualities. ↗

— Jane Bennett

#life #life-force #matter #meaning-of-life #science

Sometimes we need to stop analyzing the past, stop planning the future, stop figuring out precisely how we feel, stop deciding exactly what we want, and just see what happens ↗

— Sex And The City

#life

Most people would rather suffer through a bad situation than take steps needed to free themselves... ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#life #life

Há dias iluminados por pequenas coisas, pequeninos nadas que nos tornam incrivelmente felizes; uma tarde a comprar antiguidades, um brinquedo antigo que encontramos no ferro-velho, uma mão que agarra a nossa mão, um telefonema de que não estávamos à espera, uma palavra doce, o filho que nos abraça sem pedir outra coisa senão um momento de amor. Há dias iluminados por pequenos instantes de graça, um cheiro que nos enche a alma de alegria, um raio de sol que entra pela janela , o barulho de uma chuvada quando ainda estamos na cama, ou a chegada da Primavera e dos seus primeiros rebentos. ↗

— Marc Levy

#life

The idea of being weighed down made me uneasy, as if I lived on the surface of a frozen lake and each new trapping of domestic life - a pot, a chair, a lamp - threatened to be the thing that sent me through the ice. The only exception was books, which I acquired freely, because I never really felt they belonged to me. Because of this, I never felt compelled to finish those i didn’t like, or even a pressure to like them at all. But a certain lack of responsibility also left me free to be affected. When at las I came across the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn’t control what came through it. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#life

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ↗

— Aberjhani

#metaphysics #passion #sexuality #spirituality #life

The poor wretch, she had given up so much and could yet smile at her trouble. He himself had never surrendered to anything in life - that was what life demanded of you - surrender. For reward it gave you love, this swarthy, skin-deep love that exacted remorseless penalties. ↗

— A.E. Coppard

#love #surrender #life