#ss

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself. ↗

— Émile Zola

#passionless #pleasure #love

We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#become #becoming #being #butterflies #butterfly

Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess. ↗

— Emanuel Lasker

#chess-quotes #love

He kissed my belly, “Just think. All the love that we have for each other, we put it in this safe place here.” He kissed my belly again. ↗

— Tara Brown

#pregnancy #sweetness #love

This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#heartache #love #missing-you #love

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#feminism #frustration #patriarchy #politics #progress

It’s all about balance. Balancing exercise, food, and life. No excesses. ↗

— Helen M. Ryan

#health #mind-body #weightloss #change

One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mindfullness #stephen-richards #stillness-of-the-mind #change

All of those things - rock and men and river - resisted change, resisted the coming as they did the going. Hood warmed and rose slowly, breaking open the plain, and cooled slowly over the plain it buried. The nature of things is resistance to change, while the nature of process is resistance to stasis, yet things and process are one, and the line from inorganic to organic and back is uninterrupted and unbroken. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#process #change