#pat

Nice try,' he murmured, his lips brushing mine as he spoke. I nibbled his lower lip. 'If you could see into my past just by touching my back, you'd have a hard time resisting the temptation too.' 'I have a hard time keeping my hands off you without that added bonus. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#nora-grey #patch-cipriano #temptation

The word 'jihad' has nowhere been used in the Qur'an to mean war in the sense of launching an offensive. It is used rather to mean 'struggle'. the action most consistently called for in the Qur'an is the exercise of patience. (p. 7-8) ↗

— Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#patience #qur-an #islam

Or, if you decide you want to sleep at my place, on opposite sides of my bedroom with a Do Not Cross line drawn down the middle, I'll do it. I won't like it, but I'll do it. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#patch #sleep

No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#explanations #patience #storytelling #storytelling

Busted. I'm a monster. Jev is my deceptively harmless-and shockingly handsome-alter ego. ↗

— Becca Fitzpatrick

#ego

Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize? ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#honesty #self-awareness #meditation

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#belief #body #follows #least #like

I tend to play a lot of blues things at home, because most blues things are basically within a 12-bar pattern. ↗

— Marc Bolan

#because #blues #home #i #lot

When your country is in a costly war, with our soldiers sacrificing abroad and our nation facing a debt crisis at home, being asked to pay your fair share isn't class warfare - it's patriotism. ↗

— Cory Booker

#asked #being #class #class warfare #costly

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#home #intersect #like #looks #never