#rum

This is love: To fly toward a secret sky, To cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; To regard this world as invisible, And to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, To see beyond seeing itself, To reach and feel within the breast. —Rumi ↗

— Esha Mirari

#life

His mum had loved her ornaments, as she called them, but when she died, his dad waited about a week before boxing them up and giving them to a charity shop. “I loved your mum, Quinton,” he’d said, “but I hate them fuckin’ porcelaincats. ↗

— India Drummond

#india-drummond #quinton #love

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed" -Jace Herondale ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#themortalinstruments #love

Only union with you gives joy. The rest if tearing down one building to put up another. ↗

— Rumi

#poetry-quotes #rumi #love

He loved politics in large part exactly because it meant time spent with men like Cactus Jack Garner(who would be remembered for observing that the vice presidency was not worth a pitcher of warm piss). ↗

— David McCullough

#harry-truman #politics #love

Down with the Miserable Moneygrumps ™! ↗

— Melissa D. Stiveson

#how-to #melissa-d-stiveson #melissa-stiveson #miserable-moneygrumps #personal-budget

Be a Cinchy Saver ™! ↗

— Melissa D. Stiveson

#melissa-d-stiveson #melissa-stiveson #miserable-moneygrump #personal-budget #personal-finances

That's why when major bad-asses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a bad-ass, and I recognize that you, too, are a bad-ass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#movies

That why when major badasses greet each other in movies that don't say anything, they just nod. The nod mesns, 'I'm a badass, and I recognise that you, too, are a badass,' BUt they don't say anything to explain because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain ↗

— Cassandra Clare The Mortal Instruments

#city-of-bones #magneto #mortal-instruments #simon-lewis #tmi

The true mission of the violin is to imitate the accents of the human voice, a noble mission that has earned for the violin the glory of being called the king of instruments ↗

— Charles-Auguste de Beriot

#instrument #king #music #violin #music