#yea

Nondum amabam, et amare amabam ↗

— St. Augustine of Hippo

#loneliness #longing #love #yearning #love

When you have been with your partner for so many years, they become the glove compartment map that you've worn dog-eared and white-creased, the trail you recogonize so well you could draw it by heart and for this very reason keep it with you on journeys at all times. And yet, when you least expect it, one day you open your eyes and there is an unfamiliar turnoff, a vantage point taht wasn't there before, and you have to stop and wonder if maybe this landmark isn't new at all, but rather something you have missed all along. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #marriage #partner #years #love

I was acting like a child. Wanting his full attention. His declarations of love. I wanted to be his little princess, I guess. The one he worshiped and adored. Well, life's not like that. And after thinking it through, I actually wouldn't want it to be. We aren't put together in a marriage to stroke each other's ego. Marriage is a partnership. A blending of two lives working together. That's where the commitment comes in. It's a determination of the head - not the heart. No, I shouldn't say it that way. It still involves the heart. It still is based on love, but it's new kind of love. A mature love. One that doesn't ask, "What will you do for me?" but rather "What can I do for you?" or "What can we do for each other? ↗

— Janette Oke

#the-tender-years #life

Over the years all these vampire movies have come out and nobody looks like a vampire anymore. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#come #like #looks #movies #nobody

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall. ↗

— Carl Stokes

#been #centers #children #city #city hall

Now I'm seen by more people in one episode than I was in 20 years of theatre and movies. It's gratifying to have an impact on 25 million people a night, but I can say goodbye to my lunch-pail life as a working actor. I'm scared I might be a celebrity. ↗

— William Petersen

#celebrity #episode #goodbye #gratifying #i

I will not fall for any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, commitment phobics, people with girlfriends or wives, misogynists, megalomanics, chauvists, emotional fuckwits or freeloaders, perverts. ↗

— Helen Fielding

#emotion

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting. ↗

— Elizabeth Taylor

#greater #lfe #our #patience #shorter

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#yearning #dreams

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. ↗

— Edith Lovejoy Pierce

#opportunity #opportunity