#distance

Seasons of the heart. To get through what I must I'm often encased in ice and for months he chips away until he can see my face and after a while, I begin to thaw. As warmth and feeling returns, my emotions continue to build until my personality is set on fire. When he leaves, the fire dwindles until there is but a flicker. Then there is stillness and winter returns. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#distance #fire #heat #long-distance-love #long-distance-relationships

Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it. ↗

— Aristotle

#friendship #friendship

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

Laughter is the closest distance between two people. ↗

— Victor Borge

#closest #distance #laughter #people #two

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body. ↗

— Shoshana Zuboff

#behavior #between #body #civilizing #distance

I think it would be hard to go the distance in this business without a sense of humor. ↗

— Patricia Clarkson

#distance #go #hard #humor #i

The Nautilus was piercing the water with its sharp spur, after having accomplished nearly ten thousand leagues in three months and a half, a distance greater than the great circle of the earth. Where were we going now, and what was reserved for the future? ↗

— Jules Verne

#after #circle #distance #earth #future

I thought back to Meg’s advice about Hemingway sentences—simple declarative statements that showed the truth and distilled the meaning. My first attempt at that had been cynical and messed up. I gave it a go again. Find one lost sheep. The angels rejoice. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#college #cynicism #dating #faith #glass-girl

I am in love with girls that are bad and naughty and badass, and a little selfish, but I like to watch from a respectful distance! ↗

— Dreama Walker

#bad #distance #i #i am #like

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal. ↗

— Serena Williams

#bodies #distance #fresh #goal #going