#lei

Our story is never written in isolation. We do not act in a one-man play. We can do nothing that does not affect other people, no matter how loudly we say, "It's my own business. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#madeleine-l-engle #our-story #walking-on-water #art

Busy days galore...thoughts in a kaleidoscope of dervish dances. ↗

— Al Cash

#dance #dervish #kaleidoscope #thoughts #business

Business is leisure when you find pleasure in it. ↗

— Peter Adejimi

#leisure #marketing #business

... Whereas Hunt recommended universal charity, Keats, feeling himself 'in a Mist', relied on a knowing passivity: 'Men should bear with each other - there lives not the Man who may not be cut up, aye hashed to pieces on his weakest side'. ↗

— Nicholas Roe

#compassion #keats #leigh-hunt #life

I could barely manage myself sometimes, let alone some miniature person whose sole method of communication was crying. How would I know what she wanted? How would I keep her happy? ↗

— M.J. O'Shea

#communication

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. ↗

— Aleister Crowley

#magic #magick #occult #occultism #spiritual

For a life oriented to leisure is in the end a life oriented to death – the greatest leisure of all. ↗

— Ann Lamott

#death #leisure #work #death

It helps nothing to cry and complain, to pluck our hair. There’s no difference between getting mad at our fate and getting mad at rocks and stones. The ears of Fate are completely deaf; anyway, it doesn’t matter whether she hears our voices or not; when the moment comes, she only speaks of the things she has already designed and rains the orders she has already planned. ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#design

He gripped her nape. "I fuckin' love you, Regin!" Rain spiked his lashes as he gazed down at her, commanding her, "Love Me Back ↗

— Gena Showalter

#aidan-the-fierce #declan-chase #declaration #dreams-of-a-drak-warrior #gena-showalter

Orphans? Would you really? Adopt children?" "There are advantages. If they turn out badly, we can blame their natural parents. We can also choose our own assortment of ages and genders. We can even get them ready-grown, if we wish. ↗

— Loretta Chase

#humor #ismal #leila #love #orphan