#provoking

Once you are a butterfly, you can really love – the kind of love that makes a new life. It’s better than all the hugging caterpillars can do. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #inspirational

There is nothing sexier than sword fight. ↗

— Stana Katic

#banter #brain-sex #debate #discussion #love

Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

#inspirational-life #life #philosophical #thought-provoking #inspirational

Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land. ↗

— Timothy Findley

#thought-provoking #inspirational

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#music #though-provoking #inspirational

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#thought-provoking #inspirational

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#rational #thought-provoking #inspirational

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it. ↗

— Bill Loguidice

#thought-provoking #inspirational

What she'd done was give him a glimpse of something that scared the bejesus out of him, something never meant for men like him that could start a hunger that would eat away what little was left inside him that didn't need to be shoved into the dark place. ↗

— Ellen O'Connell

#beauty

It's just a feeling I have. What you see with your eyes is not necessarily real. My enemy is, among other things, the me inside me. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thought-provoking #life