#mar

[I]f we could imagine a world without slavery and abolish that institution, then we can face the troubles we have now. . . . Who was it that imagined a world where the Nazis could be defeated?There were those who looked upon that war machine and said: this can and must be destroyed.That resistance . . . began with an act of the imagination. Resistance begins with the imagination. ↗

— Tony Leuzzi

#imagination

Oh! to be sure," cried Emma, "it is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage. A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. ↗

— Jane Austen

#harriet-refuses-mr-martin #imagination

Committing to Nick, feeling safe with Nick, being happy with Nick, made me realize that there was a Real Amy in there, and she was so much better, more interesting and complicated and challenging, than Cool Amy. Nick wanted Cool Amy anyway. Can you imagine, finally showing your true self to your spouse, your soul mate, and having him not like you? So that’s how the hating first began. I’ve thought about this a lot, and that’s where it started, I think. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#committment #marriage #imagination

Life is only precious because it ends, kid. Take it from a god. You mortals don't know how lucky you are ↗

— Rick Riordan

#life #mars #mortal #inspirational

After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was. ↗

— Terry Eagleton

#capitalism #inevitability #inspirational #marxism #resistance

Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century. ↗

— Mark Twain

#love #marriage #inspirational

Only 8% of our worry will come to pass. 92% of our worry is wasted. DON'T PANIC ↗

— Mark Gorman

#inspirational #mark-gorman #panic #relax #worry

Tell me about yourself, Miss Russel." I started to give him the obligatory response, first the demurral and then the reluctant flat autobiography, but some slight air of polite inattention in his manner stopped me. Instead, I found myself grinning at him. "Why don't you tell me about myself, Mr. Holmes? ↗

— Laurie R. King

#inspirational #laurie-r-king #mary-russell #sherlock-holmes #the-beekeeper-s-apprentice

Time is the most precious gift you can give to someone, because if you give someone your time. It's a part of your life that you will never get back. ↗

— Gloria Tesch

#gloria-tesch #inspirational #life #love #maradonia

Not stupid. Overly trusting, maybe, but that reflects on his lack of trustworthiness, not on your intelligence. ↗

— Tammara Webber

#intelligence #jackie #love #lucas #stupidity