#love

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#drama #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey #inner-goddess #love

Silence made space for other people's words, which was important for those who needed to be listened to. ↗

— Rachel Simon

#listened #listening #love #rachel-simon #silence

I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life #love #marriage #humor

We adore chaos because we love to produce order. ↗

— M. C. Escher

#because #chaos #love #order #produce

Travis was going to be a part of that, and if he wouldn’t let me save him, I had to save myself. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#love #saving-yourself #smart-people #beauty

For the perfect gentleman was out there somewhere, waiting for her. He would be nothing like Father, he would be an artist, with an artist's sense of beauty and possibility, who didn't care two whits about bricks and bugs. Who was open and easy to read, whose passions and dreams brought light to his eyes. And he would love her, and only her. ↗

— Kate Morton

#beauty

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#boyfriend #even #forced #get #i

The knowledge of God is very far from the love of Him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#god #him #knowledge #love #very

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

#love is #sensuality #sin #than #without

Instead of a man of peace and love, I have become a man of violence and revenge. ↗

— Hiawatha

#i #instead #love #man #peace