#love

...when he looks at Beauty in the only way that Beauty can be seen - only then will it become possible for him to give birth not to images of virtue (because he's in touch with no images), but to true virtue [arete] (because he is in touch with true Beauty). The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he. ↗

— Plato

#love #philosophy #truth #virtue #beauty

Idolatry is like love, but less idealized. Its icon is still beautiful, but only charisma makes it attractive enough to be worshipped. ↗

— Bauvard

#idolatry #love #beauty

It's a mood record. Like one night you're going to be down in the dumps depressed because you're thinking about your ex-boyfriend and the next moment you're gonna be like screw him you know? And the next one you're saying to yourself "God I'm in love." ↗

— Willa Ford

#because #depressed #down #dumps #god

Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match. ↗

— George Foreman

#boxing #boxing match #dangerous #getting #hurt

I’ve officially turned into a loser,” she whispered cynically. “I’m looking forward to going home and having cereal for dinner and walking Mitchell and studying a little and then going to sleep. I’ve had my ‘going out and having fun’ quota for the year, I guess, and it’s June. ↗

— Daniel Amory

#city #downtown #dream #law-school-school #love

I love the attention but I don't like too much of it. ↗

— Eminem

#i #i love #like #love #much

I would be a liar if I said it wouldn't be lovely and soothing - that's the word - to have a hit single or a hit album. ↗

— Mel Torme

#hit #hit single #i #liar #lovely

I call it an old-fashioned seafood house for the new millennium. We are trying to update what we know as old fish houses and places like that, which are great, but I want to give it a new, fresh look with updated versions of the classics we all love. ↗

— Todd English

#classics #fish #fresh #fresh look #give

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#ask #france #happiness #life #love

I'd love to hold a koala. They sleep 22 hours a day, eat eucalyptus leaves and just hang out. I want to spend some time with that guy. ↗

— Milo Ventimiglia

#eat #guy #hang #hold #hours