#si

Never be silent with persons you love and distrust," Mr. Carpenter had said once. "Silence betrays. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#distrust #love #silence #love

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself, Love possesses not nor would it be possessed: For love is sufficient unto love. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#possessiveness #love

You can't make your kids do anything. All you can do is make them wish they had. And then, they will make you wish you hadn't made them wish they had. ↗

— Marshall B. Rosenberg

#compassion #discipline #love #parenting #love

I felt betrayed and absolutely livid, but my body wasn’t smart enough to know it. It had liked the feel of his hands, wanted more of it, wanted it now. It was almost like there were two of me, one who heartily approved of the mage and one who would have dearly loved to see him dead. ↗

— Karen Chance

#cassie #pritkin #love

There was nothing ugly in the small, unprepossessing figure of this emancipated woman, but the expression on her face made a bad impression on the viewer. One felt inclined to ask: "What's the matter? Are you hungry? Bored? Afraid? Why so tense?" Just like Sitnikov, she was always anxious. She spoke and moved in a rather casual, though awkward,manner: she obviously considered herself a good-natured, simple creature; at the same time, no matter what she did, it always seemed that she didn't want to be doing that. Everything she did appeared to be done on purpose, as children say, that is, neither simply nor naturally. ↗

— Ivan Turgenev

#nature

Even if toxic people are right about what is "good," they are wrong if the approach is not healthy. ↗

— John Lewis Lund

#healthy #relationships #right #toxic #wrong

To love is to destroy. To be loved is to be the destroyed. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #jace-wayland #mortal-instruments #love

Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it, you must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it. If you don’t, you will leak away your innate contentment. It’s easy enough to pray when you’re in distress but continuing to pray even when your crisis has passed is like a sealing process, helping your soul hold tight to its good attainments. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#blessings #contentment #happiness #pray #soul

It's love, not the Battle of Thermopylae. You don't have to treat everything like it's a last stand. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#isabelle-lightwood #love #simon-lewis #love

When you fall in love, the natural thing to do is give yourself to it. That's what I think. It's just a form of sincerity. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#sincerity #love