#om

This is it. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#awareness #moment #life

people ask to much because they live in their own reality. not what reality really is. ↗

— Rob Lyon

#life-lessons #reality #wisdom #life

There are some debts that can't be paid with money. ↗

— Steven J. Carroll

#guilt #life #money #responsibility #wisdom

Just because I wasn’t human, didn’t mean I could discount human life. (Eric) ↗

— Shannon A. Thompson

#fiction #human #humanity #life #paranormal-romance

For the vision of a novelist is both complex and specialised; complex, because behind his characters and apart from them must stand something stable to which he relates them; specialised because since he is a single person with one sensibility the aspects of life in which he can believe with conviction are strictly limited ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#duality #joseph-conrad #writing-craft #life

One day, when I am a braver man, I will tell her these things, and then I will look her in the eye tell her I love her and ask her to be only mine. But until that day, we're just friends. ↗

— Charlie Huston

#romance #love

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love #promise #love

That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is. Most people love you for who you pretend to be. To keep their love, you keep pretending - performing. You get to love your pretence. It's true, we're locked in an image, an act - and the sad thing is, people get so used to their image, they grow attached to their masks. They love their chains. They forget all about who they really are. And if you try to remind them, they hate you for it, they feel like you're trying to steal their most precious possession. ↗

— Jim Morrison

#pretense #self-esteem #self-image #wisdom #love

You know,” he said, “this is why I love you so much.” Her tone was heartbreakingly warm. “What do you mean?” You don’t ask me to go inside because it’s cold. You just want to make it easier for me to be where I want to stand. ↗

— J.R. Ward

#fiction #paranormal #romance #vampire #wrath

You wanted hearts and flowers,” he murmurs. I blink at him, not quite believing what I’m seeing. “You have my heart.” And he waves toward the room. “And here are the flowers,” I whisper, completing his sentence. “Christian, it’s lovely. ↗

— E.L. James

#love