#ness

Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #love

Nothing is better than to have me look after you with love & affection...So she chose (to go with) Nothing. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#loneliness #love #nothing #quotes-i-love #romance

Outer relationships with a man or a woman are a mirror of the relationship between our own inner man and woman. Embracing our own inner man and woman means to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects, which manifests on the outside as relationships. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#growth #inner-man-and-woman #love #relationships #spirituality

It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#female #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love #male

Nyla, he breathed, hoping not to wake her but also hoping that she would open her eyes. She didn't. She simply smiled and whispered, "Jamison, I'd like you to be the first to know that I love you." His heart convulsed. She had finally said it. ↗

— Mia Castile

#happiness #love #love

And still we love the evil cause And of the just effect complain; We tread upon life's broken laws And murmur at our self-inflicted pain. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#life

He honestly believed, for an instant, that what he'd heard was music-a tune piped, a burble of notes, a little scrap of melody floating by on wind and breaking his heart. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#feelings #hurt #love #love

Chleo clutched her chest in agony. Drowning in her own sorrow. Her own lonelyness. How was she still alive? Everyone knew it was impossible to live without a heart. And Nick had just taken hers with him. ↗

— Georgia Whybird

#sadness #love

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#loneliness #lonely #love #love

It is not easy to grow old in this business, when you are a woman above all, in the cinema. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#business #cinema #easy #grow #old