Genuine love is rarely an emotional space where needs are instantly gratified. To know love we have to invest time and commitment… dreaming that love will save us, solve all our problems or provide a steady state of bliss or security only keeps us stuck in wishful fantasy, undermining the real power of love — which is to transform us.
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| — | bell hooks (via queerfatfemme) |
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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| — | Ernest Hemingway (via soul-surfer) |
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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| — | Ernest Hemingway (via soul-surfer) |
i don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but i ask you to remember.
somewhere inside me
there’ll always be the person
i am tonight.
but i ask you to remember.
somewhere inside me
there’ll always be the person
i am tonight.
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| — | F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via tallskinnyasian) |
Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.
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| — | C. S. Lewis (via wrists) |
