#long

The usual picture of Socrates is of an ugly little plebeian who inspired a handsome young nobleman to write long dialogues on large topics. ↗

— Richard Rorty

#handsome #inspired #large #little #long

He was what the egotistical part of me had always longed for: danger, sexiness, popularity, style, unpredictability. The kind of man who'd always keep me guessing. Just one night with him and i'd already started to wonder if perhaps i'd spent the last two years in a comfortable coma. ↗

— Lucy Robinson

#longing #unpredictable #love

Victory belongs to the most persevering. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#most #persevering #victory

…she was afraid of how he made her feel, because he made her feel way too much ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-lovers #love-story #lover

Her heart unfolded in her chest, took in all of him, and closed tightly, unwilling to let him go ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-lovers #love-story #lover

She loved this man. This wonderful, respectiful, willful man. And she couldn’t even tell him. ↗

— Justine Dell

#contemporary-romance #hot-hero #long-lost-lovers #love-story #lover

When sweet lullabies are whispered into the sky, my heart is filled with with the sorrow of time. So when the kiss of a midnight moon ends, drop sweet nothings to fill my ear. Too many years to be sincere, and too many lost favorites that were never there. A tear or two, and maybe three; apathy is-and may not be me. ↗

— Melody Aurora

#betrayal #intimacy #longing #love #sad

More and more I find I want to be living in a Big Here and a Long Now. ↗

— Brian Eno

#inspirational #now #inspirational

He said it was better to belong where you don't belong than not to belong where you used to belong, remembering when you used to belong there. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#home #men

Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform." Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#forgive #grieve #long #transform #forgiveness