#old

When you refuse to settle for less than the best...the best tends to track you down. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#knowing-your-worth #life #living-your-best #not-settling #positive-thinking

Too easy to get = Just as easy to forget. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#easy-to-get #hard-to-get #holding-out-for-the-best #knowing-your-worth #not-settling

Ten years from now, make sure you can say that you CHOSE your life, you didn’t SETTLE for it. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#holding-out-for-the-best #life #not-settling #positive-thinking #settling

The great miraculous bell of translucent ice is suspended in mid-air. It rings to announce endings and beginnings. And it rings because there is fresh promise and wonder in the skies. Its clear tones resound in the placid silence of the winter day, and echo long into the silver-blue serenity of night. The bell can only be seen at the turning of the year, when the days wind down into nothing, and get ready to march out again. When you hear the bell, you feel a tug at your heart. It is your immortal inspiration. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beginnings #bell #end #endings #fresh-start

Very interesting for an old duffer like me to try his hand at something new. If I don't do that once in a while, I might just turn into a fossil, you know! ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#hand #his #i #interesting #into

A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#marianne-dashwood #inspirational

For her, sex was nothing more than an itch. And this phsychological and physiological neutrality of hers at once relieved her of so many human emotions and sentiments and desires. Sexual neutrality was the essence of coldness in an individual. It was a great and wonderful thing to be born with. ↗

— Ian Fleming

#desire #emotion #neutrality #sentiment #sex

I was caught by him. I was absolutely, unintentionally ensnared. Held by the look in his cocoa brown eyes when he spoke, commanding me. I shivered at his words as if they were touches sliding down my spine. ↗

— Paloma Beck

#bdsm #hold-my-hand #love #romance #love

I don't know is she loves me anymore, or if she hates me, or if she just don't care one way or the other, she ain't showing a thing to me since. Sooth, friendly, nothing. It's all I deserve after what I did to her. ↗

— Lisa Reardon

#hurt #love #love

Prose Poems from my book SPAN OBSERVATION So, we may not be able to explain the world. Not exactly. But we can accept it, and love it. We can turn our faces to the light and examine the minutest details simply for the sake of it. We can live lives of joy and purpose. We are all part of one whole. Take comfort in this. Almost every one of us is capable of holding a cup to another’s lips without our hands shaking. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#comfort #cup #examine #hands #holding