#tonic

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tonic




In their eyes as they pass is not hatred, not excitement, not despair, not the tonic of their victory - there is just the simple expression of being here as though they had been here doing this forever, and nothing else.


Ernie Pyle


#being #despair #doing #else #excitement

I know nothing about platonic love except that it is not to be found in the works of Plato.


Edgar Jepson


#except #found #i #know #love

I'm pretty intense when it comes to relationships, platonic ones as well. If I feel a connection with someone, I'm willing to go there.


Alexander Skarsgard


#connection #feel #go #i #i feel

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.


Studs Terkel


#biologically #book #community #community action #happens

But I think we both knew, even then, that what we had was something even more rare, and even more meaningful. I was going to be his friend, and was going to show him possibilities. And he, in turn, would become someone I could trust more than myself.


David Levithan


#gay #life #love #platonic-love #relationships

For love is a celestial harmony Of likely hearts compos'd of stars' concent, Which join together in sweet sympathy, To work each other's joy and true content, Which they have harbour'd since their first descent Out of their heavenly bowers, where they did see And know each other here belov'd to be.


Edmund Spenser


#love #platonic-love #religion #love

It would seem probable that the attachment of such a one is of a tender and profound character; indeed, it is possible that in this class of men we have the love sentiment in one of its most perfect forms—a form in which from the necessities of the situation the sensuous element, though present, is exquisitely subordinated to the spiritual.


Edward Carpenter


#homosexuality #love #platonic-love #sex #love

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.


Charlie Chaplin


#pain #relief #tonic

I have about 20 to 25 platonic relationships with women all across the board from professional to artistic and they always give little clues on what they like.


Jamie Foxx


#across #always #artistic #board #clues

I can't even find someone for a platonic relationship, much less the kind where someone wants to see me naked.


Gilbert Gottfried


#even #find #i #kind #less