#uma

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals. ↗

— George Orwell

#love #life

Every day of my life, I feel fat. It's not correct thinking in the natural, normal human being's way of life. ↗

— Angie Everhart

#correct #day #every #every day #fat

Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#drunkards #god #love #the-three-musketeers #love

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#indescretion #joy #love #the-three-musketeers #love

I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it sis my duty ... This is my highest and best use as a human. ↗

— Ben Stein

#help #human #life #love #life

We need cats to need us. It unnerves us that they do not. However, if they do not need us, they nonetheless seem to love us. ↗

— Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

#humans #jeffery #masson #love

Aristotle taught that stars are made of a different matter than the four earthly elements— a quintessence— that also happens to be what the human psyche is made of. Which is why man’s spirit corresponds to the stars. Perhaps that’s not a very scientific view, but I do like the idea that there’s a little starlight in each of us. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#human-spirit #starlight #love

Perhaps because I'll never be one, humans are interesting to me. ↗

— Jeff Lindsay

#human-behavior #dreams

I looked at her, with her hair spilled out on the pillows and the warmth of her body warming mine. And I thought, god-dang, if this ain't a heck of a way to be in bed with a pretty woman. The two of you arguing about murder, and threatening each other, when you're supposed to be in love and you could be doing something pretty nice. And then I thought, well, maybe it ain't so strange after all. Maybe it's like this with most people, everyone doing pretty much the same thing except in a different way. And all the time they're holding heaven in their hands. ↗

— Jim Thompson

#crime-fiction #human-condition #love #murder #violence

Lovers are not snails; they don't have to protrude from their shells and meet each other halfway. Meet me within your own self. ↗

— Jerzy Kosiński

#identity #isolation #love #lovers #relationships