#sense

The sense of love should not like coffee, which only gives pleasure to the enjoy. But it must be like oranges which not only give pleasure but also freshness. ↗

— Isra

#freshness #love #oranges #pleasure #sense-of-love

I realized that the good stories were affecting the organs of my body in various ways, and the really good ones were stimulating more than one organ. An effective story grabs your gut, tightens your throat, makes your heart race and your lungs pump, brings tears to your eyes or an explosion of laughter to your lips. ↗

— Christopher Vogler

#inspiration #laughter #senses #story #writing

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best. ↗

— Philip Dormer Stanhope

#inspirational #inspirational

The past is behind us unless we fail to learn from it. ↗

— L.M. Fields

#inspirational #logic #truth #inspirational

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #god #higher-self #holy-spirit

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#day #desolation #every #every day #exile

Judge yourself; if you do that you will not be judged by God, as St. Paul says. But it must be a real sense of your own sinfulness, not an artificial humility. ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#god #humility #judge #judged #must

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#common sense #creeping #die #discover #late

If you can think of your lover in six senses, then I'd say you're nailed. They've got themselves wrapped around your heart. And your cock. (...) Six senses? (...) Sight, sound, taste, scent, touch, and the other, that thing you can't figure out that means everything.  ↗

— C.M. Stunich

#fall-in-love #inspirational #inspirational-love #love #lovers

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#awe #beauty #life #optimism #positivity