#phil

I don't compare life to anything. Life can't be defined or compared, I just know that it dresses itself as a murderer in the end. ↗

— Griselda Salazar

#truth #life

Choose to be happy. It is what we have all done. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#love

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#philosophy #love

And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. --from The Light, That Never Dies ↗

— Aberjhani

#hope #inspiration #miracles #philosophy #poetry

First impressions are rarely worth preserving. Men typically fall short of our expectations. ↗

— Renate Linnenkoper

#men #philosophy #relationships #love

And she says she wants to expose me to all these great things. And to tell you the truth, I don't really want to be exposed to all these great things if it means that I'll have to hear Mary Elizabeth talk about all the great things she exposed me to all the time. I don't understand that. I would give someone a record so they could love the record, not so they would always know that I gave it to them. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#culture #philosophy #love

Peace loves war ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#love

এরা সুখের লাগি চাহে প্রেম, প্রেম মেলে না, শুধু সুখ চলে যায় ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#love #philosophy #love

Because they do burn leaves here, the older folks do, and I remember now that I love it and always have. The way fall feels at night because of it, because of the crackling sound and walking around the sidewalks, like when you’re a kid, and kicking those soft piles, and seeing smoke from backyards and Mr. Kilstrap standing over the metal drum with the holes in the top, the sparking embers at his feet. ↗

— Megan Abbott

#adolescence #philosophy #reflection #love

Like the princess, Philip didn't believe in public displays of affection, which made it easy to mask his feelings. But he revealed them privately in a touching letter to Queen Elizabeth in which he wondered if he deserved "all the good things which have happened to me," especially "to have fallen in love completely and unreservedly. ↗

— Sally Bedell Smith

#love #philip #queen-elizabeth-ii #life