#owning

The Browning love story? It is an ideal, all too rare, and yet I hardly think it strange. It would have been far stranger had the fates allowed those two brilliant passionate souls to beat themselves out in silence. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#beat #been #brilliant #browning #far

I'm trying to practice owning less stuff. ↗

— Alexandra Paul

#less #owning #practice #stuff #trying

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways... ↗

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

#love #love

Sometimes you're drowning yourself in your own words. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #motivational #words #life

Life is not always what you expect. But life never happens by accident. ↗

— Helen Downing

#life

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'. ↗

— Tony Blair

#boss #call #called #civil #civil servants

Tell her this And more,— That the king of the seas Weeps too, old, helpless man. The bustling fates Heap his hands with corpses Until he stands like a child With surplus of toys. ↗

— Stephen Crane

#drowning #king-neptune #neptune #ocean #poseidon

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character ↗

— Robert Browning

#paracelsus #robert-browning #faith

Why, Yrael?” it said, as the last of the dark gave way to silver, and the shining sphere of metal sank slowly to the ground. “Why?” “Life,” said Yrael, who was more Mogget than it ever knew. “Fish and fowl, warm sun and shady trees, the field mice in the wheat, under the cool light of the moon. ↗

— Garth Nix

#mogget #yrael #life

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#being #being overwhelmed #frightened #had #high