#ship

Trying to fall out of love is like trying to climb a mountain. Blindfolded, on crutches, naked in a hail storm. ↗

— Louise Caiola

#love #relationships #humor

We laughed together. It’s so lovely laughing with a man. It feels positive. Relaxed… ↗

— James Lusarde

#erotica #humor #laughter #love #men-and-women

Don't let yourself be amazed by the imagination of a writer and his words, writers are almost all the time in a love-hate relationship with words. ↗

— Nema Al-Araby

#relationships #words #writers #imagination

Rabbits (says Mr. Lockley) are like human beings in many ways. One of these is certainly their staunch ability to withstand disaster and to let the stream of their life carry them along, past reaches of terror and loss. They have a certain quality which it would not be accurate to describe as callousness or indifference. It is, rather, a blessedly circumscribed imagination and an intuitive feeling that Life is Now. A foraging wild creature, intent above all upon survival, is as strong as the grass. ↗

— Richard Adams

#human #resiliency #richard-adams #survival #watership-down

The fact is unalterable, that a fellow-mortal with whose nature you are acquainted solely through the brief entrances and exits of a few imaginative weeks called courtship, may, when seen in the continuity of married companionship, be disclosed as something better or worse than what you have preconceived, but will certainly not appear altogether the same. ↗

— George Eliot

#marriage #relationships #imagination

I long ago developed a very practical smile, which I call my "Noh smile" because it resembles a Noh mask whose features are frozen. Its advantage is that men can interpret it however they want; you can imagine how often I've relied on it. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#life #relationships #imagination

The only possible match for someone who doesn't know how to receive is someone who doesn't know how to give. ↗

— Amanda Owen

#inspirational-quote #motivational-quotes #receiving #relationships #inspirational

When the old poets made some virtue their theme, they were not teaching but adoring, ↗

— Alister E. McGrath

#leadership #passion #inspirational

It must be an awful feeling to have love all around you and not feel loved, to be in need and unable to accept whats being offered, to see a world of possibilities but trapped inside your own mind. ↗

— Tracy L. Darity

#love #relationships #inspirational

It may be difficult, but there will be times we need to pick up our brooms and do some spiritual house cleaning. It is through this process that we find our true relationships, our true heart, our core integrity, and our life’s purpose. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#brooms #core-integrity #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #integrity