#livin

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#love

You cannot mistake this You cannot reinvent this moment You cannot call this love It is so much more ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #love #passion #passionate-living #romance

..think about the contradictions and complexities that beset people. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#reflections #movies

If by doing some work which the undiscerning consider 'not spiritual work' I can best help others, and I inwardly rebel, thinking it is the spiritual for which I crave, when in truth it is the interesting and exciting, then I know nothing of Calvary love. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#hypocrisy #love

It's important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It's not only life of babies, but it's life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet. ↗

— George W. Bush

#bushism #children #dungeon #humor #internet

If you are too busy to pray, you are busier than God wants you to be. ↗

— Wanda E. Brunstetter

#inspirational-quotes #business

I'm fifty-one years old, but I'm not through yet. I have lived a full life, and intend packing in quite a lot more. ↗

— Hedy Lamarr

#life-and-living #age

I come across too much material on "how to make a man want you", "how to make a man commit", "how to make a man finally pop the question", "how to make a man take you seriously", "how to get into a man's emotions." And I laugh. My dear fellow women, enough! Do not busy yourselves with such things! Instead, fall in love with yourself! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #life-and-living #quotes-for-women #self-love #women

So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#attitude #celebrating-your-single-life #fabulous #independence #independent-woman

Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things—eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies—since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#busyness #life #living #mind #preoccupation