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Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#jamie-weise #love #missing-you #passionate-living #romance

The only real limitation on your abilities is the level of your desires. If you want it badly enough, there are no limits on what you can achieve. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#wisdom #life

...He kissed me again, farther up my neck, and I pushed him back against the wall. My mind searched for the logical thought, a rational life raft before I drowned in wanting to hiss him. I managed, "We've only met a few days ago. We don't know each other." Luke released me. "How long does it take to know someone?" I didn't know. "A month? A few months?" It sounded stupid to quantify it, especially when I didn't want to believe my own reasoning. But I couldn't just go kissing someone I knew nothing about-- it went against everything I'd ever been told. So why was it so hard to say no? He took my fingers, playing with them in between his own. "I'll wait." He looked so good in the half-light under the trees, his light eyes nearly glowing against his shadowed skin. It was useless. "I don't want you to." I whispered the words, and before I'd even finished saying them, his mouth was on mine and I was melting under his lips. ↗

— Maggie Stiefvater

#teen-fantasy #life

The sense of tragedy - according to Aristotle - comes, ironically enough, not from the protagonist's weak points but from his good qualities. Do you know what I'm getting at? People are drawn deeper into tragedy not by their defects but by their virtues. ... [But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life #metaphor #wisdom #life

If you're gonna burn a bridge behind you, make sure you've crossed it first. ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#philosophy #wisdom #life

Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#life #tragedy #life

It's not that I can't live without you; it's that I don't want to. There's a difference. We all make choices in life and I choose you. My heart belongs to you. And I'm not asking for it back, even if you won't want it anymore. I'm just asking for a chance to have your again. I promise I'll be more careful with it this time. ↗

— J. Sterling

#choice #heart #love #mature-ya #promise

Life is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel. ↗

— Jean Racine

#emotions #feeling #life #thinking #tragedy

I feel keeping a promise to yourself is a direct reflection of the love you have for yourself. I used to make promises to myself and find them easy to break. Today, I love myself enough to not only make a promise to myself, but I love myself enough to keep that promise ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#love #promises #self-esteem #self-love #life

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly. ↗

— Albert Camus

#love #romance #life