#ship

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#jane-austen #relationships #marriage

After having so nobly disentangled themselves from the shackles of Parental Authority, by a Clandestine Marriage, they were determined never to forfeit the good opinion they had gained in the World, in so doing, by accepting any proposals of reconciliation that might be offered them by their Fathers – to their farther trial of their noble independence however they never were exposed. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #love-and-friendship #marriage #parents #satire

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #family

Finish Well; Anyone Can Start Well ↗

— Miles Anthony Smith

#leadership #quotes-to-live-by #sacrifice #servant-leader #inspirational

time made me stronger, you're no longer on my mind ↗

— Boyz II Men

#couples #heartbroken #love #relationships #song-lyrics

ان اكبر تحديات الرجل ترجمة كلام المرأة اذا تحدثت و مساندتها بالتفهم والتأييد المناسبين للموقف و لمشاعرها... و اكبر تحديات المرأة تأويل صمت الرجل و مساندته بتقبله و دعمه بان تترك له المساحة التي يحتاج اليها ↗

— John Gray

#men

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either. ↗

— David Almond

#family #friendship #inspirational #judgement #love

Aucun couple, même le meilleur, ne peut encourager à l'amour, ce n'est pas vrai. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#love #relationships #love

A real friend would listen to your issues and help guide you in the right direction without judging you !! ↗

— JoJo

#friendship #love #trust #truth #friendship

It was his fault, all of it, and yet her hatred for him was the worst kind of love, a tortured longing, a misguided wish that made her heart hammer in her chest. She couldn't ignore the disjointed sensation that they were now two different pieces of two different puzzles, and nothing in the world could make them fit together again. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#misunderstanding #puzzles #quarrel #relationship #love