#my

I knew then what harmony meant: what belonging was. Just like a raindrop joining in the fun at the big river. I was the little raindrop, and she was the river. ↗

— Amira Aly

#mythical #inspirational

I've never had my brows done - I tweeze them myself. I used to watch my mom pluck her brows, that's how I learned. ↗

— Emmy Rossum

#done #had #her #how #i

My father said this to me: "Israelmore, if you don't make any impact on earth, you will die before you die. But if you impress hearts with what you do, you still live even after you are gone ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#die #do-something #father #fathers-day #hearts

Yeah, I am crazy. Ok. May be I am. But I prefer to be crazy than being a dummy. ↗

— Ravindra Shukla

#dummy #inspirational #youth #inspirational

It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society. ↗

— Murray Rothbard

#comes #dominion #economy #into #number

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'… ↗

— Pat Califia

#bdsm #bodies #imagination

Well?” he asked, smiling devilishly. “I promise, I won’t hurt you, Nikki. In fact, I imagine you’ll enjoy my company, tremendously.” I let out a ragged sigh and nodded. He stared at my mouth. “I’d like to hear you say it.” I cleared my throat. “Come in, Ethan. ↗

— Kristen Middleton

#dark-lover #mysterious #ooh-la-la #imagination

Seen from that future time, when every commodity the human mind could imagine would flow from the industrial horn of plenty in dizzy abundance, this would seem a scanty, shoddy, cramped moment indeed, choked with shadows, redeemed only by what it caused to be created. Seen from plenty, now would be hard to imagine. It would seem not quite real, an absurd time when, for no apparent reason, human beings went without things easily within the power of humanity to supply and lives did not flower as it was obvious they could. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#economics #marxism #planned-economy #socialism #imagination

Myth is much more important and true than history. History is just journalism and you know how reliable that is. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#myth #story #inspirational

I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#miracles #mystery #inspirational