#sec

A wise mother knows: It is her state of consciousness that matters. Her gentleness and clarity command respect. Her love creates security. ↗

— Vimala McClure

#love #mothering #respect #security #love

He shrugged. "I was...thinking." "About what?" "The fires of purgatory." She had to sit down. He wasn't making any sense now. "What does that mean?" she asked. "Patrick told me he would walk through the fires of purgatory if he had to in order to please his wife." She went over to the bed and sat down on the side. "And?" she prodded when he didn't continue. He stripped out of his clothing and walked over to her. He pulled her to her feet and stared down to her. "And I have only just realized I would do the same for you. ↗

— Julie Garwood

#love #the-secret #love

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#secrecy #fame

He was afraid that the secrets she'd kept would always be here, inside him, an ugly malignant thing lodged near enough to his heart to upset its rhythm, and though it could be removed, cut out, there would always be scars; bits and pieces of it would remain in his blood, making it wrong somehow, so that if he accidentally sliced his skin open, his blood would--for one heartbeat--flow as black as India ink before it remembered that it should be red. ↗

— Kristin Hannah

#secrets #india

We each appear to hold within ourselves a range of divergent views as to our native qualities.. And amid such uncertainty, we typically turn to the wider world to settle the question of our significance.. we seem beholden to affections of others to endure ourselves. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#affirmation #insecurity #self-esteem #status #uncertainty

Nowadays, you can do anything that you want—anal, oral, fisting—but you need to be wearing gloves, condoms, protection. ↗

— Slavoj Žižek

#condoms #fisting #liberalism #oral-sex #protection

Almost all people are hypnotics. The proper authority saw to it that the proper belief should be induced, and the people believed properly. ↗

— Charles Fort

#deception #fortean #hypnosis #manipulation #mind-control

To go where no one else has ever gone before is the secret of heroism. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#heroism #literature #literature-quotes #poetry #poetry-quotes

there’s a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, “Let me take care of you forever,” and I have never heard it spoken before.Over the last few years, I’d given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself,especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely . . . ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#romance #secure #love

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#god #imagination #literature #literature-quotes #poetry