#rest

It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#cannot #faults #friend #friendship #him

Newton's work on gravity led to the discovery of the Lagrange point, a place where opposing forces cancel one another out, and a body may remain at relative rest. This is where I am right now; the forces in my life confound one another. Better, for the moment, to be here and now, without history or future. ↗

— Nick Harkaway

#future #history #lagrange-point #newton #rest

How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

#life #passion #life

Honor women! They strew celestial roses on the pathway of our terrestrial life. ↗

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

#celestial #honor #life #pathway #pierre

The most altruistic and sustainable philosophies fail before the brute brain stem imperative of self-interest. ↗

— Peter Watts

#brutality #life-philosophy #self-interest #life

Dreams and restless thoughts came flowing to him from the river, from the twinkling stars at night, from the sun's melting rays. Dreams and a restlessness of the soul came to him. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#hesse #restlessness #siddhartha #soul #dreams

... If you never try to see [someone] for who they are, then you don't love them enough. ↗

— Carrie Ryan

#love #love

Preston pulled me up against his chest and cupped my face in his hands. “I love you. I love you so damn much it consumes me. I don’t deserve you, but I’m gonna become the man who does deserve you. I promise you. I’ll make you proud of me.”I reached up and ran my thumb over his lips. “I am and will always be proud of you. I want the world to know you’re mine. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#preston #love

She would be trouble, this one; the fact that he was lying awake now was proof of that. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#restless #love

Love is a fault; so be it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love