#sty

There are certain phrases potent to make my blood boil -- improper influence! What old woman's cackle is that?" "Are you a young lady?" "I am a thousand times better: I am an honest woman, and as such I will be treated. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#expectations #gender #honesty #independence #influence

Do you think it's possible to finally decide that you really, truly love someone but not end up marrying him? ↗

— Robin Jones Gunn

#christy #love #marriage #miller #love

[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection. ↗

— Héloïse d'Argenteuil

#concupiscence #dignity #fortune #greed #honesty

Just like your body and lifestyle can be healthy or unhealthy, the same is true with your beliefs. Your beliefs can be your medicine or your poison. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#body #happiness #healthy #inspirational #life

I lay my head on his chest and listen to his heart beating, solid and sure.....he reads me so well. He's known about my emotional empathy since we were children. Nothing disturbs him...Few can lie to me... I don't know the truth, only that there is a lie. It takes a scrupulously honest man to love me. That's my Sean. We learned to trust each other completely before we were old enough to have learned suspicion. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#romance #truth-inspirational #inspirational

The less you look to others, the more you find in yourself. What have you found in yourself. ↗

— Ron W. Rathbun

#honesty #inspirational #life #the-mind-and-self-relfection #inspirational

My life's an open book. Some of the pages are a little ripped, but it's open. ↗

— Ethan from "The Thunder in Heaven"

#inspirational #life #loss #inspirational

Do not accept whatever comes. Do not accept whatever goes. You have infinite power. Exercise your choice. ↗

— Amit Ray

#lifestyle #inspirational

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination. ↗