#ours

Passmore used his personality the way a magician used smoke. It was all for the diversion. ↗

— David B. Dacosta

#love

His face bore an imperial nose, one belonging to the same pedigree as the one venomously blasted from the face of the Sphinx statue by Greek envy. ↗

— David B. Dacosta

#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

stretching yourself brings you maximum effort with effortless flow, aligning with spirit and purpose. ↗

— Ron Broussard

#stretchyourself-ron-broussard #motivational

Everything is music for the born musician. ↗

— Romain Rolland

#identity #music #musicians #self-knowledge #music

Overhead she [Renée] could smell the palm trees, whose tall leaves shook down their aroma. And more than the stifling heat, more than the brilliant light, more than the great dazzling flowers, like faces laughing or grimacing between the leaves, it was the odours that overwhelmed her. An indescribable perfume, potent, exciting, composed of a thousand different perfumes, hung about her; human exudation, the breath of women, the scent of hair; and breezes sweet and swooningly faint were blended with breezes coarse and pestilential, laden with poison. But amid this strange music of odours, the dominant melody that constantly returned, stifling the sweetness of the vanilla and the orchids' pungency was the penetrating, sensual smell of flesh, the smell of lovemaking escaping in the early morning from the bedrooms of newlyweds. ↗

— Émile Zola

#odours #smells #love

Amongst the many trials to which the human mind is subjected, that of holding intercourse, real or imaginary, with the world of spirits: of finding itself alone with a being terrific and awful, whose nature and power are unknown, has been justly considered the most severe. ↗

— Joanna Baillie

#nature

As a part of their conditioning, women voluntarily prostitute themselves into the auction and groom themselves toward the highest exchange. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#respecting-yourself #womens-rights #respect

To say I have played through four World Cups, two Lions tours, 91 international games and a ridiculous number of injuries and other setbacks gives me an incredibly special feeling of fulfilment. I know myself well enough to know that I will never truly be satisfied. ↗

— Jonny Wilkinson

#enough #feeling #four #fulfilment #games