#si

To take for granted one's blessings is a damage to the soul, and in time one will lose them, simply from lack of care. One should never tire of nourishing and treasuring all that is lovely. ↗

— Anne Perry

#love

No tear, is a wasted tear, if it spills out for love, whether in good times or bad. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#cry #love #tears #love

This was war.Who the hell cared about playing fair? ↗

— Nalini Singh

#love

It was my kind of song: fast and fun and exuberant,the lyrics tumbling out almost faster than my ears could follow them,some times rhyming,sometimes not. . . ↗

— Anthony Rapp

#love

...she grasped the terrible truth that love can never be compelled, from man, from sprite, from beast; that one who loves, however she longs for requital, however long she waits, may receive in return the reverse of what she gives, the dark side of the moon. ↗

— Thomas Burnett Swann

#love #reciprocity #requital #love

An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done. ↗

— Jane Austen

#always #cares #disengaged #done #engaged

...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time. ↗

— Chang-rae Lee

#change

...yet see how elastic our stiff prejudices grow when once love comes to bend them. ↗

— Melville

#love

After a great blow, or crisis, after the first shock and then after the nerves have stopped screaming and twitching, you settle down to the new condition of things and feel that all possibility of change has been used up. You adjust yourself, and are sure that the new equilibrium is for eternity. . . But if anything is certain it is that no story is ever over, for the story which we think is over is only a chapter in a story which will not be over, and it isn't the game that is over, it is just an inning, and that game has a lot more than nine innings. When the game stops it will be called on account of darkness. But it is a long day. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#crisis #finality #fluidity #life-events #resolution

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see. ↗

— Criss Jami

#afraid #change #cognition #experimentation #eyes