Here For Now

[seayouonthesafeside]

'Yes. You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because it's so hard to resist. Being listened to--really listened to--is the second best thing in the world.' 'What's the first best thing?' 'Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power.' 'Oh, is it?' I asked, laughing. 'What about sex?' 'No. Apart from the biology, sex is all about power. That's why it's such a rush.' I laughed again. 'And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power.' 'They're wrong,' she said with terse finality. 'Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.'

Shantaram (2003), Gregory David Roberts

[seayouonthesafeside]

We've become used to the suffering of others. It doesn't affect me. No one in our world feels responsible. Who is responsible for the blood of our brothers and sisters? The refugees washed up on the shores of the Mediterranean? I don't have anything to do with it. Must be someone else. Certainly, not me. When no one is to blame, everyone is to blame.

The Two Popes (2019)

[seayouonthesafeside]

Did Jesus build walls? His face is a face of mercy. The bigger the sinner, the warmer the welcome. Mercy is the dynamite that blows down walls.

The Two Popes (2019)

[thelovejournals]

And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.

Sylvia Plath (via thelovejournals)

[wnq-writers]

‘Kiss me’ she said, ‘kiss me for I want to understand what if feels like when galaxies collide.’

thefallenleavesofautumn  (via wordsnquotes)

[wnq-writers]

Choose to learn new things for you to grow. Don’t let yourself stand in one place. You need to move.

ynnejournal (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

There are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.

Iain Thomas (via wordsnquotes)

[fyp-psychology]

Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?

Sigmund Freud (via fyp-psychology)

[lifeinpoetry]

How fragile we are, between the few good moments.

Jane Hirshfield, from “Vinegar and Oil,” Come, Thief (via lifeinpoetry)

[wordsnquotes]

the courage it took to get out of bed each morning to face the same things over and over was enormous.

Charles Bukowski, “The Freeway Life” (via wordsnquotes)

[floralls]

CHATEAU DU RIVAU, LOIRE VALLEY, FRANCE by  Clive Nichols

[wordsnquotes]

If you see something beautiful in someone, speak it.

Ruthie Lindsey (via wordsnquotes)

[seayouonthesafeside]

'You must not let fatigue set in,' she warns. 'That is what my mother said. Let your body work until it is spend, but keep your mind for yourself.'

Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World

[wordsnquotes]

I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I was beginning to believe that a very few times in your life, if you were lucky, you might meet someone who was exactly right for you. Not because he was perfect, or because you were, but because your combined flaws were arranged in a way that allowed two separate beings to hinge together.

Lisa Kleypas, Blue-Eyed Devil (via wordsnquotes)

[seayouonthesafeside]

This is from exactly two months ago but I'm tacking it here to bookmark today. 💜

[seayouonthesafeside]

You always know what to say :)

[seayouonthesafeside]

Perhaps the trick is to pray for someone you can love wholly, tirelessly, unconditionally, and still have so much more to give. :)