#me

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#individuality #love #mercy #love

I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#romance #romantic #sentimentality #love

I told you. You don't love someone because of their looks or their clothes or their car. You love them because they sing a song only your heart can understand. ↗

— L.J. Smith

#james #love #nightworld #soulmate #love

By the way, my name's Rose Hathaway. I'm seventeen years old, training to protect and kill vampires, in love with a completely unsuitable guy, and have a best friend whose weird magic could drive her crazy. Hey, no one said high school was easy. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#frostbite #hathaway #mead #richelle #rose

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays. ↗

— Audrey Niffenegger

#love #time #waiting #love

Experts in ancient Greek culture say that people back then didn't see their thoughts as belonging to them. When ancient Greeks had a thought, it occurred to them as a god or goddess giving an order. Apollo was telling them to be brave. Athena was telling them to fall in love. Now people hear a commercial for sour cream potato chips and rush out to buy, but now they call this free will. At least the ancient Greeks were being honest. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#consumerism #free-will #god #goddess #greek

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#marriage #relationships #love

What are men to rocks and mountains? ↗

— Jane Austen

#mountains #rocks #men

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. ↗

— Plato

#men

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire. ↗