#ron

Hers was the perfect love that dwells on the other's happiness, and not on its own. She knew that, though for the time being he would find bliss and oblivion in her arms, he would soon repine in inactivity whilst others fought for that which he held sublime. ↗

— Emmuska Orczy

#diogenes #laughing-cavalier #scarlet-pimpernel #series #love

You may think of me as an object of desire and I'm going to tell you that I can be in front of you naked and not be erotic. ↗

— Emmanuelle Beart

#front #going #i #i can #may

He played of love and loss and years of silence, words unsaid and vows unspoken, and all the spaces between his heart and theirs; and when he was done, and he'd set the violin back in its box, Will's eyes were closed, but Tessa's were full of tears. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #tessa-gray #will-herondale #love

Never once in your days will you ever be loved by all ↗

— Aaron Ozee

#aaron-ozee #goodreads #ozee #www-goodreads-com #love

Don't ever worry about winning something, for as along as you have your true love at your side, you have already won ↗

— Aaron Ozee

#aaron-ozee #goodreads #ozee #www-goodreads-com #love

I decided to masturbate with shampoo instead of conditioner today. Because yolo. Things Jesus never said. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#bastard #booze #comedy #conditioner #crack

Lee smiled. "My father said she was a strong woman, and I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is almost indestructible. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#eden #literature #of #steinbeck #strong

...one cannot but wonder how an environment can make people despair and sit idle and then, by changing the conditions, one can transform the same people into matchless performers. ↗

— Muhammad Yunus

#motivation #social-change #change

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. ↗

— Eben Alexander III

#inspirational #irony #laughter #religion #world

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-strong #healing #heartbreak #letting-down-the-walls #letting-go