#ok

When love dies, the heart's ashes do not leave on the wind—they rest on the mantelpiece of the soul, darkening the sunrise we once saw to be beautiful. ↗

— A.M. Hudson

#grief #inspiration #loss #love #the-heart-s-ashes

I bet you cook good, huh?" Darlene asked. "Mother doesn't cook," Ignatius said dogmatically. "She burns. ↗

— John Kennedy Toole

#humor #humor

One can be ugly in looks, but lovely in disposition. ↗

— L. Frank Baum

#looks #oz #ugly #love

I swear, I didn't really go in thinking, 'I'll be the Simon Cowell' of 'Top Chef.' I was just used to being a judge on British food shows where people are much more outspoken and rather rude. That's the culture over here. ↗

— Toby Young

#british #chef #culture #food #go

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport. ↗

— Henny Youngman

#airport #back #got #i #just

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children. ↗

— Steve Yzerman

#forward #free #free time #i #initially

Even though your thinking might not be right for others, just so long as it's right for you then that's all what matters. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#cosmic-ordering #law-of-attraction #mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money

For the first time in history, middle-class women do not need men in the traditional ways - for safety, for money, for a life. So they’re demanding instead what they always wanted but couldn’t ask for: emotional connection, presence, intimacy. Sex with enough foreplay, enough seduction, enough closeness to please them. Men are baffled not only because the needs they are being asked to fill differ so from what their fathers and grandfathers understood to be their jobs but also because full-fledged intimacy requires strengths and skills they’ve never learned. Moreover… they’re strengths and skills that were once left solely to women: Men didn’t have to develop them. This maturational mismatch may be contributing to distrust among lovers of all ages. ↗

— Dalma Heyn

#ebook #marriage #relationships #strength #women

Whatever belief we have actually stems from the thankfulness that we feel and this feeling further attracts more happy feelings towards us. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mind-body-spirit #mind-power #money #motivational #new-age

What reading does, ultimately, is keep alive the dangerous and exhilarating idea that a life is not a sequence of lived moments, but a destiny...the time of reading, the time defined by the author's language resonating in the self, is not the world's time, but the soul's. The energies that otherwise tend to stream outward through a thousand channels of distraction are marshaled by the cadences of the prose; they are brought into focus by the fact that it is an ulterior, and entirely new, world that the reader has entered. The free-floating self--the self we diffusely commune with while driving or walking or puttering in the kitchen--is enlisted in the work of bringing the narrative to life. In the process, we are able to shake off the habitual burden of insufficient meaning and flex our deeper natures. ↗

— Sven Birkerts

#age