#w

Quietly...softly, God taps on our tense shoulders with His love. ↗

— Shawntel Jefferson

#love #peace #refreshing #winds #love

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#survival #war #love

Having been to war myself, I do not understand why so many people are so in love with it. ↗

— Michel Templet

#pacifism #war #love

Be cautious not to utter a syllable! Step not out of the circle, and as you love yourself, dare not to look upon my face! ↗

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

#warning #warnings #love

The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#work #writing #art

And fetch some straw. We’ll put it between us and the ground. No reason we shouldn’t sleep soft tonight.” “Straw. I love luxury. ↗

— Joanna Bourne

#sarcasm #love

Sometimes, when it’s going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. Emma is lost on anything less than 120gsm. ↗

— David Nicholls

#funny #stationary #writer #writing #written-word

I love thee for a heart that’s kind--not for the knowledge in thy mind. ↗

— W.H. Davies

#love #w-h-davies #love

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. ↗

— Heinrich Böll

#artist #love #woman #art

The proper behaviour all through the holiday season is to be drunk. The drunkenness culminates on New Years’ Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to. ↗

— P.J. O'Rourke

#love #new-years #new-years-eve #love