#om

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#political #women #strength

Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night; Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night... ↗

— William Shakespeare

#romeo-and-juliet #love

It's hard to love a woman and do anything. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#woman #love

Two minds with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one. ↗

— Jasper Fforde

#love #love

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#sex #women #love

He insisted that stars were people so well loved, they were traced in constellations, to live forever ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#constellations #love

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#buddhism #wisdom #love

She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#love

I feel…and I have reason to believe…that we could come to mean something to each other. ↗

— Colleen Houck

#romance #love

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall. ↗

— Doug Fetherling

#relationships #romance #love