Author: meredithlmm

Entrepreneur • Writer • Poet • Lover of Great Wine, Food, Cocktails, & Brewed Beverages • My best friends are feline 🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛

The result of your not listening to your experience is that you keep re-living it, over and over again.

Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations with God, An Uncommon Dialogue: Living in the World with Honesty, Courage, and Love – Volume 3 (via wnq-anonymous)

There is no one right way to live.

Daniel Quinn, Ishmael (via fyp-philosophy)

Never sacrifice who you are just to be with someone.

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She scares the hell out of me and calms my soul at the same time. Maybe that’s what love is—a total contradiction that somehow balances out.

Tammara Webber, Where You Are
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I kissed her until there was more happiness inside me than sadness.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz, He Forgot to Say Goodbye
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That was what a best friend did: hold up a mirror and show you your heart.

Kristin Hannah, Firefly Lane
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Don’t lose heart if it’s very difficult at times, everything will come out all right and nobody can in the beginning do as he wishes.

Vincent van Gogh (via wnq-art)

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A lot of the time, love feels like it’s about figuring out what the other person wants and giving it over. Sometimes that’s impossible. But sometimes it’s pretty simple.

David Levithan, Another Day
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That’s the thing with magic. You’ve got to know it’s still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Charles de Lint
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Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (via fyp-philosophy)

合縁奇縁 | aienkien

(noun) A Japanese untranslatable idiom, aienkien is defined as an expression used to describe an uncanny relationship. It characterizes a couple who met by a quirk of fate, but are strangely happy and deeply bonded by their unusual attraction and course of destiny. 
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I understand how easy it would be to lose yourself in the heart of another. It‘s frightening. Exhilarating. An ocean with no lifeguard.

Sarah Ockler, Fixing Delilah
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she doesn’t belong to anyone and i think that’s the most divine thing about her. she’s found love within herself and she’s complete alone.

iambrillyant (via wnq-writers)

Love out of passion,
not out of loneliness.

Love the person,
not the idea of them.

Love who they are,
not who you want them to be.

Love with compassion,
not with judgement.

Love unconditionally,
not only when it’s convenient.

thehelmthatguidesyou (via wnq-writers)

And love,
Just love.

You and Me

I would live to delight you,
To turn your every day to magic
As mine are turned by you
As mine are turned by me.

I would live to entice you,
To turn your every sensation into bliss
As mine are turned by you
As mine are turned by me.

I would live to be your love,
To turn your heart to molten gold
As mine is turned by you
As mine is turned by me.

I would live to be your girl,
To adorn your very side with glory
As mine is adorned by you
As I am adorned by me.

I would live to be your peace
To be the respite you choose
As I choose you
As I choose me.

I would live for nothing but love
And you would be the love I live
As you are you
As I am me.

I would live to be forever yours
To be your eternal everything
As I, already, in my heart, belong with you
As you, already, in my heart, belong with me.

Think of the first time you slept with someone, or the first time you fell in love: that blinding explosion that left you crackling to the fingertips with electricity, initiated and transformed. I tell you that was nothing, nothing at all, beside the power of putting your lives, simply and daily, into each other’s hands.

Tana French, In the Woods
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I ask for nothing. / In return I give All. / There is no earning my Love. / No work needed, no effort / Save to listen to what is already heard, / To see what is already seen. / To know what is already known. / Do I seem to ask too little? / Would you give although I ask not? / Then this you can give me and I will accept. / I will take your heart. / You will find it waiting for you / When you return.

Ki Longfellow, Flow Down Like Silver: Hypatia of Alexandria
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When animals express their feelings they pour out like water from a spout. Animals’ emotions are raw, unfiltered, and uncontrolled. Their joy is the purest and most contagious of joys and their grief the deepest and most devastating. Their passions bring us to our knees in delight and sorrow.

Marc Bekoff, The Emotional Lives of Animals: A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy – and Why They Matter
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This is love.

To be someone’s best friend requires a minimum investment of time. More than that, though, it takes emotional energy. Caring about someone deeply is exhausting.

Malcolm Gladwell, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference (via fyp-psychology)