#phil

Maybe that's it, [...] [w]ith what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." [...] "Maybe [...] what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking. ↗

— David Levithan

#philosophy #love

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#book #book-lovers #books #reading #reading-books

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#philosophy #love

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies ↗

— Aberjhani

#hope #inspiration #miracles #philosophy #poetry

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen. ↗

— François de La Rochefoucauld

#moral #philosophy #reflections #love

Your lips are like sugar And your cheeks an apple Your breasts are paradise And your body a lily. O, to kiss the sugar To bite the apple To reveal paradise And open the lily. ↗

— Louis de Bernières

#love #philothei #love

Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love. ↗

— Plato

#love

It is more Important to be of pure intention than of perfect action. ↗

— Ilyas Kassam

#intention #kindness #logic #love #philosophy

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations. ↗

— Renate Linnenkoper

#men #philosophy #relationships #love

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#culture #philosophy #love