#mina

Who are you Jared? The man who wants to fuck me and own me, or the man who held me when I had a nightmare? ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#confused #dominant #love #love

Take your time. Stay away from the easy going. Never take the same way twice. Gunny Arndt's rules for successful reconnaissance; Guadalcanal 1942 ↗

— GYSGT Charles C. Arndt

#inspiration #military #usmc #inspirational

Staying in alignment with truth will always illuminate the path of another soul’s journey. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #path #soul-s-journey #staying-in-alignment

And afterwards, if you had asked any of the survivors how they had managed it, they would not have been able to tell you. It was as if those days in the forest, the escape to the city, had passed in a trance. The mind creates an alternative state. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#forna #kai #love #memory #love

And then the second thing you have to do is go and see your son. That is a duty of love, Andrew. It's as simple as that. A duty of love. Do you understand what I'm saying to you? ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#witty #love

Some people expect things to fall into their lap. Oh, they might work a bit for it. I'll just shake this tree, and if I shake it long enough that pretty red apple will plop right into my hand. Never occurs to them that they might have to climb the damn tree, fall out a couple times, get some scrapes and bruises before they get to that apple. Because if the apple's worth wanting, it's worth risking a broken neck. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#determination #humor #love #love

I love doubt in a woman. It's nearly as sexy as determination. ↗

— Irvine Welsh

#doubt #sex #women #love

I’m barely human. I’m more like a creature; to me, everything gives off a scent! Thoughts, moments, feelings, movements, words left unsaid, words barely spoken; they all have a distinct sense, distinct fragrances! Both a smell and a touch! To inhale is to capture, to experience! I can perceive and I can “touch” in so many odd ways! And so I am made up of all these scents, all these feelings! An illumination of nerve endings! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#creature #fragrance #human #humanity #illumination

There is no real world, just the one you create. ↗

— Jolene Stockman

#motivational #world-domination #inspirational

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness