#na

Such reciprocity is the very structure of perception. We experience the sensuous world only by rendering ourselves vulnerable to that world. Sensory perception is this ongoing interweavement: the terrain enters into us only to the extent that we allow ourselves to be taken up within that terrain. ↗

— David Abram

#vulnerability #experience

Don't count your blessings, let your blessings count! EnjoyLife! ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#gratitude #life-and-living #inspirational

The same beautiful receptionist greeted Christian who had met him before and she extended the same lush invitation as she had the last time. Victoria's eyes narrowed and Christian chuckled under his breath at her jealousy."Relax chérie, she's paid to do that." "Well, she didn't come on to me, so obviously she's not doing her job properly," Victoria said. Christian laughed. ↗

— Amalie Howard

#jealousy #romantic #supernatural #ya #beauty

A beautiful thought: It’s just meaningless to except your partner to be of your kind because you can’t hold someone right hand in your right hand to walk together. ↗

— herryicm

#beauty

Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father. ↗

— Josephus Daniels

#die #eternal #father #live #men

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. ↗

— Anais Nin

#explanation #love #no reason #reason #seek

There are horrible people who, instead of solving a problem, tangle it up and make it harder to solve for anyone who wants to deal with it. Whoever does not know how to hit the nail on the head should be asked not to hit it at all. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#asked #deal #does #harder #head

It's Nathaniel Hawthorne Month in English. Poor Nathaniel. Does he know what they've done to him? We're reading The Scarlet Letter one sentence at a time, tearing it up and chewing on its bones. It's all about SYMBOLISM, says Hairwoman. Every word chosen by Nathaniel, every comma, every paragraph break -- these were all done on purpose. To get a decent grade in her class, we have to figure out what he was really trying to say. Why couldn't he just say what he meant? Would they pin scarlet letters on his chest? B for blunt, S for straightforward? ↗

— Laurie Halse Anderson

#scarlet-letter #symbolism #poor

Thankfully the rest of the world assumed that the Irish were crazy, a theory that the Irish themselves did nothing to debunk. They had somehow got it into their heads that each fairy lugged around a pot of gold with him wherever he went. While it was true that LEP had a ransom fund, because of its officers' high-risk occupation, no human had ever taken a chunk of it yet. This didn't stop the Irish population in general from skulking around rainbows, hoping to win the supernatural lottery. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#irish #supernatural

Edward smiled, I smiled, even Bernardo smiled. Olaf just looked sinister. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#fiction #hunter #supernatural #urban-fantasy #vampire