#ss

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

#love

You know, when you're unhappy you don't have the strength left to take care of others. But it doesn't mean you don't love them. ↗

— Francesca Marciano

#love

People know when they are being lied to, they know when their rulers are absurd, they know they do not love their chains. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#freethought #love

Lesson number one, she muttered, love is beyond your grasp. Lesson two: nowhere is it written that you're guaranteed fairness. And three: there's only right and wrong. ↗

— Sandy Blair

#lesson #love #one #three #two

Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objects of affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing a faded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me now to remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, half fancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it was folded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I was comparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#loneliness #love #love

The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#love #love

Compassion is the signature of Higher Consciousness. Non-violence is the tool to evolve into the Higher Consciousness. ↗

— Amit Ray

#higher-consciousness #love #non-violence #nonviolence #love

Love is not insatiable. What is insatiable is the need for love. ↗

— Marty Rubin

#love #need #satisfaction #love

We each sell alittle piece of happiness. You are elevating someone's spirit in some way, and to do that you have to understand the source of their angst and then you have to frame your product as a solution. ↗

— Sonia Marciano

#love #product #selling #spirit #strategy

في أوقات الحزن و الأسى سأضمك إلى صدري و أهدهدك ، وأجعل من أحزانك أحزاني ، فالشيء الذي يبكيك يبكيني ، والشيء الذي يجرحك يجرحني ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#novel #sadness #together #love