#v

Give me but a firm spot on which to stand, and I shall move the earth. ↗

— Archimedes

#determination #discovery #invention #opportunity #change

I think the rich will eventually have to cave in too, because the economic situation around the world is not gonna tolerate the United States being on top forever. ↗

— Nina Simone

#because #being #cave #economic #economic situation

I wonder if it is possible to have two boyfriends. I mean, times are changing. Relationships are more complicated. In France men always have mistresses and wives and so on. Henri probably has two girlfriends. He would laugh if you told him you just had one. He would say, 'C'est tres, tres tragique.' ↗

— Louise Rennison

#relationships #change

i like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more. i like your body. i like what it does, i like its hows. i like to feel the spine of your body and its bones, and the trembling -firm-smooth ness and which i will again and again and again kiss, i like kissing this and that of you, i like, slowly stroking the, shocking fuzz of your electric fur, and what-is-it comes over parting flesh ... And eyes big love-crumbs, and possibly i like the thrill of under me you so quite new. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#poetry #love

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#self-discovery #self-understanding #change

Sometimes being human sucks. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#love

If only [love] could be turned off. It's not a faucet. Love's a bloody river with level-five rapids. Only a catastrophic act of nature or a dam has any chance of stopping it- and then only succeeds in diverting it. Both measures are extreme and change the terrain so much you end up wondering why you bothered. No landmarks to gauge your position when it's done. Only way to survive is to devise new ways to map out life. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#change

I miss him in so many ways, but right now I miss him in the way you always miss someone when you're single among a room full of couples. ↗

— Emily Giffin

#claudia #emily-giffin #love #love

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#band #busted #claim #fun #i

But I wasn't the girl I'd been when I left, and I knew it. ↗

— Ally Carter

#leaving #change