#falling

When you fall head over heels for someone, you're not falling in love with who they are as a person; you're falling in love with your idea of love. ↗

— Elisabeth Rohm

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Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ↗

— Confucius

#every #every time #fall #falling #glory

I just loved playing a man who was unafraid of making an idiot of himself in the process of falling in love. I found that admirable. ↗

— Ben Kingsley

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Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#common #common sense #consists #falling #falling in love

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#conflict #desire #fall #falling #fear

We may feel the pain of falling back from a level of affluence to which we have grown accustomed, but most people in developed countries are still, by historical standards, extraordinarily well off. ↗

— Peter Singer

#affluence #back #countries #developed #developed countries

The ground was so far below him, he could barely make it out through the grey mists that whirled around him, but he could feel how fast he was falling, and he knew what was waiting for him down there. Even in dreams, you could not fall forever. He would wake up in the instant before he hit the ground, he knew. You always woke in the instant before you hit the ground. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#fall #falling #ground #dreams

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water. ↗

— Rider Strong

#covered #days #falling #four #i

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#falling-in-love #love #survived #swim #love

Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#falling #fighting #humor #humor