#timeless

Biffy said, off the cuff, "Or we could find a replacement queen." "Volunteering for the position?" "Why, Professor, is that wittiness I detect?" "Only for you." "Charmer." Biffy tapped him on the arm playfully. ↗

— Gail Carriger

#humor #professor-lyall #timeless #humor

I delight to come to my bearings,—not walk in procession with pomp and parade, in a conspicuous place, but to walk even with the Builder of the universe, if I may,—not to live in this restless, nervous, bustling, trivial Nineteenth Century, but stand or sit thoughtfully while it goes by. What are men celebrating? They are all on a committee of arrangements, and hourly expect a speech from somebody. God is only the president of the day, and Webster is his orator. I love to weigh, to settle, to gravitate toward that which most strongly and rightfully attracts me;—not hang by the beam of the scale and try to weigh less,—not suppose a case, but take the case that is ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#simplicity #timelessness #love

Death was a leech; no matter which side of the spectrum you were on, either dead or alive, it fed. It either acquired your soul or devoured all your joyful emotions. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#angels #fantasy #fiction #kreitzer #paranormal-romance

There are enough hours in a day to know that you are truly loved." ~R. Alan Woods [2013] ↗

— R. Alan Woods

#love #r-alan-woods #timeless #love

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#cheesy #inspirational #love #love-at-first-sight #love-story

To seek the timeless way we must first know the quality without a name. There is a central quality which is the root criterion of life and spirit in a man, a town, a building, or a wilderness. This quality is objective and precise, but it cannot be named. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#cannot #central #criterion #first #know

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out. ↗

— Stephen King

#because #brought #diminish #feelings #get

There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest. ↗

— Najeev Raj Nadarajah

#inspirational-attitude #life-experience #living #living-to-the-fullest #success

We assert that the subject is crucial and only that subject matter is valid which is tragic and timeless. ↗

— Mark Rothko

#crucial #matter #only #subject #subject matter

Death. It was something I had to think about once. Weird, right? Strange that death was ever an inevitable end, but it wasn’t anymore. Not really. I eluded it. Tricked it. It was an odd concept—the world aged, moved forward, yet I . . . didn’t. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#death #fantasy #fiction #timeless-series #age