#relations

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you ↗

#being-genuine #building-relationships #inspirational-quotes #making-friends #meeting-people

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#jane-austen #relationships #marriage

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #family

I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#literature #love #poetry #relationship #spiritual-poetry

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ↗

— Graham Greene

#men

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis.... ↗

— Alice Mattison

#men

Why is it men think you have to accept an apology, just because one is offered? ↗

— D.D. Barant

#relationships #men

That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person ↗

— Kehinde Sonola

#hope #inspirational #joy #joy-of-life #klosophy

It's my belief that people enter your life at exactly the right time. ↗

— Don Roff

#inspirational #life #life-philosophy #people #relationships

Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗