#provoking

First of all, there is no love triangle. There is a person in the middle who likes attention. ↗

— John from FYA

#love #thought-provoking #dating

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#inspirational #sleep #thought-provoking #writing #dreams

The temptation of the age is to look good without being good. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#thought-provoking #age

How can the removal of beauty from a world so lacking in beauty be anything but tragic? ↗

— William Goldman

#beauty

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. ↗

— Andrew Thomson

#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking

God has made us so that we must be mutually dependent. We may ignore our own dependence, or refuse to acknowledge that others depend upon us in more respects than the payment of weekly wages; but the thing must be, nevertheless. Neither you nor any other master can help yourselves. The most proudly independent man depends on those around him for their insensible influence on his character - his life. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#thought-provoking #life

Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#feel #i #i feel #once #provoking

Call it professional interest. You see, Jessamine, love is a kind of poison; one of my favorite kinds, in fact. It infects the blood; it takes over the mind; it seizes dominion over the body. It amuses me to think of him pining for you. Aching for what he cannot have. The loneliness in his soul is festering like a wound. There is nothing I could do for him that is worse that what you have already done, my lovely. And I assure you, in his case there will be no cure. ↗

— Maryrose Wood

#love

Civilized beings regard the act of intercourse as the highest expression of romantic love. One need only observe the behavior of animals, however, to realize that the act is often a form of violence. ↗

— Fiona Paul

#thought-provoking #love

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more? ↗

— Michael J. Collins

#death