#ours

Looking outside of yourself for love and acceptance, leaves your happiness in the hands of others. ↗

— Debra Beck

#self-esteem #unconditional-love #love

You must tell me about it when you do,' she said. 'When you make love for the first time, I mean. I want to know what you think.' He glanced away from her, out of the window. An ice-cream parlour, a man with a dog, a tree. How was he going to get out of shopping next week? 'It's so wonderful, it's like,' and she left her mouth open while she thought, and then it came to her, and she smiled, 'it's like colours everywhere. ↗

— Rupert Thomson

#colours-everywhere #make-love #love

Any good marriage is secret territory, a necessary white space on society’s map. What others don’t know about it is what makes it yours. ↗

— Stephen King

#secret #yours #marriage

Think about it this way: While being married is about becoming the WIFE you are meant to be, being single allows you to focus on becoming the WOMAN you were born to be. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-married #being-single #finding-yourself #loving-yourself #marriage

Talk lives in a man’s head, but sometimes it is very lonely because in the heads of many men there is nothing to keep it company - and so talk goes out through the lips. ↗

— Beryl Markham

#discourse #thought #men

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always 20 times better. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

#fashion #style

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

When you are living the best version of yourself, you inspire others to live the best versions of themselves. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#best-version #happiness #inspirational #inspire #life

YOU are your love of a lifetime. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#lifetime #love #loving-yourself #relationship #experience

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successfull personality and duplicate it. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#faith