#stance

Do not think that one has to be sad in order to be militant, even though the thing one is fighting is abominable. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#optimism #resistance #struggle #optimism

Liberalism seems to be related to the distance people are from the problem. ↗

— Whitney M. Young

#liberalism #people #problem #related #seems

I love when I reach Marcus on the phone and as he says hello, I can hear the music he's listening to in the background. That music is the sound of him without me. How he surrounds himself when I'm not there, which is almost all the time. ↗

— Megan McCafferty

#long-distance-relationships #love #love

But then why, when talking on the phone, did they quarrel, on average at least once every four sentences? Maybe, though the inspector, it was an effect of the distance between them becoming less and less tolerable with each passing day, since as we grow old - for every now and then one must, yes, look reality in the eye and call things by their proper names - we feel more keenly the need to have the person we love beside us. ↗

— Andrea Camilleri

#love #reality-check #love

When you have only two minutes to say good-bye to the person you love most in the world, and you don’t know when you’ll see each other again, you can become logjammed with the effort to say and do and settle everything at once. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#long-distance #love

The best luck always happens to people who don't need it. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#happenstance #luck #need #privilege #men

That first scream, my lord, was indeed your daughter, my wife, and if you kill me, your grandchild will be quite without a father. Won't you come in? ↗

— Deeanne Gist

#bride #brides #christian #christian-romance #connie

Believe that you can run farther or faster. Believe that you're young enough, old enough, strong enough, and so on to accomplish everything you want to do. Don't let worn-out beliefs stop you from moving beyond yourself. ↗

— John Bingham

#persistance #running #inspirational

I tried to put things in perspective but sometimes you're just too close to it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#distance #perspective #men

Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#agreement-with-reality #circumstances #happiness #inspirational #life