Upwardstroking Quotes

#1. The flat hand pats the chest repeatedly with an upwardstroking movement, representing happy feelings bubbling up.

Monta Z. Briant

#2. When all of life becomes crowded with profound and weighty matters, making time to engage in trivial things becomes an even greater priority.

Galen Beckett

#3. My first love was basketball.

Stan Smith

#4. I like being in love. I want to be in love, but at this stage of my life, my career is, by far, the most important thing to me. It's my passion.

Toni Braxton

#5. Re-engrav'd time after time
Ever in their youthful prime
My designs unchang'd remain
Time may rage, but rage in vain
For above Time's troubled fountains
On the great Atlantic Mountains
In my Golden House on high
There they shine eternally

William Blake

#6. I love depressing movies and depressing books.

Amy Sedaris

#7. She seemed determined to be human also; to like people, even though they were stupid.

Virginia Woolf

#8. I didn't want to be a part of anything special. Bad things happened to special people. Usually failure followed by an early death

Mindee Arnett

#9. Likewise every true thought contains in itself a proof of its truth. This proof is its vivifying effect upon the heart;

John Of Kronstadt

#10. For years, Thisbe will later think of that one moment in the field as the only time she was ever sure about anything in her life.

Joe Meno

#11. Love is not about property, diamonds and gifts. It is about sharing your very self with the world around you.

Pablo Neruda

#12. When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
My other cries and cries and cries
when I put on a cocktail dress.

Anne Sexton