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  1. A quotation from Robert Louis Stevenson

    Falling in love is the one illogical adventure, the one thing of which we are tempted to think as supernatural, in our trite and reasonable world. The effect is out of all proportion with the cause. Two persons, neither of them, it may be, very amiable or very beautiful, meet, speak a little, and look a little into each other’s eyes. That has been done a dozen or so of times in the experience of either with no great result. But on this occasion all is different. They fall at once into that state in which another person becomes to us the very gist and centrepoint of God’s creation, and demolishes our laborious theories with a smile; in which our ideas are so bound up with the one master-thought that even the trivial cares of our own person become so many acts of devotion, and the love of life itself is translated into a wish to remain in the same world with so precious and desirable a fellow-creature.

    Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) Scottish essayist, novelist, poet
    Essay (1877-02), “On Falling in Love,” Cornhill Magazine, Vol. 35

    More about this quote: wist.info/stevenson-robert-lou…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #robertlouisstevenson #enamor #enchantment #fallinginlove #love #infatuation

  2. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth

    I've realized (and what a lot of you all on this site maybe tried to tell me or hoped that I would come to in my own time) that #queerness encompasses so much more than just who I may or may not have slept with. That can be part of it! But it's a fully lived experience. It's more expansive than that. A straight person would not have gone through the inner struggles that I have, whether that was teenage me feeling a confusing mix of #elation and #shame around certain young women friends that I can now identify as #desire and #infatuation or adult me wrestling with certain questions or who I am and who I could be or could have been. Maybe these experiences aren't the idealized images of queerness we see in the media, but they are my experience of my own #queer and #bisexual identity. They are part of the queer experience because I am queer. They are part of the bi experience because I am bi.

  3. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth

    I've realized (and what a lot of you all on this site maybe tried to tell me or hoped that I would come to in my own time) that #queerness encompasses so much more than just who I may or may not have slept with. That can be part of it! But it's a fully lived experience. It's more expansive than that. A straight person would not have gone through the inner struggles that I have, whether that was teenage me feeling a confusing mix of #elation and #shame around certain young women friends that I can now identify as #desire and #infatuation or adult me wrestling with certain questions or who I am and who I could be or could have been. Maybe these experiences aren't the idealized images of queerness we see in the media, but they are my experience of my own #queer and #bisexual identity. They are part of the queer experience because I am queer. They are part of the bi experience because I am bi.

  4. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth

    I've realized (and what a lot of you all on this site maybe tried to tell me or hoped that I would come to in my own time) that #queerness encompasses so much more than just who I may or may not have slept with. That can be part of it! But it's a fully lived experience. It's more expansive than that. A straight person would not have gone through the inner struggles that I have, whether that was teenage me feeling a confusing mix of #elation and #shame around certain young women friends that I can now identify as #desire and #infatuation or adult me wrestling with certain questions or who I am and who I could be or could have been. Maybe these experiences aren't the idealized images of queerness we see in the media, but they are my experience of my own #queer and #bisexual identity. They are part of the queer experience because I am queer. They are part of the bi experience because I am bi.

  5. CW: re: Thread, kink, bisexuality, self-acceptance, love, personal growth

    I've realized (and what a lot of you all on this site maybe tried to tell me or hoped that I would come to in my own time) that #queerness encompasses so much more than just who I may or may not have slept with. That can be part of it! But it's a fully lived experience. It's more expansive than that. A straight person would not have gone through the inner struggles that I have, whether that was teenage me feeling a confusing mix of #elation and #shame around certain young women friends that I can now identify as #desire and #infatuation or adult me wrestling with certain questions or who I am and who I could be or could have been. Maybe these experiences aren't the idealized images of queerness we see in the media, but they are my experience of my own #queer and #bisexual identity. They are part of the queer experience because I am queer. They are part of the bi experience because I am bi.

  6. Apple Maps z opiniami ekspertów – m.in. Michelin Guide, The Infatuation i Golf Digest

    Apple wprowadza do aplikacji Mapy Apple opinie, oceny i rekomendacje od uznanych ekspertów, takich jak Michelin Guide, The Infatuation i Golf Digest.

    Dzięki temu użytkownicy łatwiej znajdą najwyżej oceniane restauracje, hotele i pola golfowe.

    Można już przeszukiwać Mapy pod kątem restauracji z gwiazdkami Michelin, odznaczeniami Green Star czy Bib Gourmand, a także hoteli z wyróżnieniem Michelin Key. Obecnie funkcje te dostępne są w USA, ale planowane jest ich rozszerzenie na kolejne kraje.

    Na kartach miejsc pojawiają się teraz: odznaczenia, opisy oraz zdjęcia od partnerów. W wybranych hotelach możliwa jest rezerwacja bezpośrednio z poziomu Map, a wkrótce dojdzie także opcja rezerwacji stolików (przez Michelin) i tee time’ów na polach golfowych (przez Supreme Golf).

    Mapy Apple zyskują też gotowe przewodniki tworzone przez ekspertów – Michelin, The Infatuation oraz Golf Digest – dostępne bezpośrednio w aplikacji.

    To są bardzo dobre wiadomości!

    Jeśli jesteście ciekawi, jak wygląda rynek kawy wysokiej jakości lub gastronomia w ramach HoReCi — zapraszam do mojego drugiego podcastu „Kawa. Bo czemu nie?”.

    #AppleMaps #appleMapsRezerwacje #eksperckieRekomendacje #golfDigest #hoteleWAppleMaps #infatuation #mapyApple #michelinGuide #nowościAppleMaps #restauracjeZGwiazdkąMichelin

  7. A quotation from Dante

    The moment I saw her I say in all truth that the vital spirit, which dwells in the inmost depths of the heart, began to tremble so violently that I felt the vibration alarmingly in all my pulses, even the weakest of them. As it trembled, it uttered these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi [Behold a god more powerful than I who comes to rule over me].
     
    [In quello punto dico veracemente che lo spirito de la vita, lo quale dimora ne la secretissima camera de lo cuore, cominciò a tremare sì fortemente, che apparia ne li menimi polsi orribilmente; e tremando disse queste parole: «Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi»]

    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
    La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 2 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Reynolds (1969)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #beinginlove #fallinginlove #heart #infatuation #love #loveatfirstsight #passion #trembling

  8. A quotation from Dante

    The moment I saw her I say in all truth that the vital spirit, which dwells in the inmost depths of the heart, began to tremble so violently that I felt the vibration alarmingly in all my pulses, even the weakest of them. As it trembled, it uttered these words: Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur mihi [Behold a god more powerful than I who comes to rule over me].
     
    [In quello punto dico veracemente che lo spirito de la vita, lo quale dimora ne la secretissima camera de lo cuore, cominciò a tremare sì fortemente, che apparia ne li menimi polsi orribilmente; e tremando disse queste parole: «Ecce deus fortior me, qui veniens dominabitur michi»]

    Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) Italian poet
    La Vita Nuova [Vita Nova; New Life], ch. 2 (c. 1294, pub. 1576) [tr. Reynolds (1969)]

    Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet…

    #quote #quotes #quotation #beinginlove #fallinginlove #heart #infatuation #love #loveatfirstsight #passion #trembling

  9. It's time for the song of the day! Today is a creepily romantic song by Aqualung. You probably know it, it's strange and beautiful. One of those songs that scratches my brain tentacles. What do you think?

    open.spotify.com/track/5Ko8SrP

    #songoftheday #music #aqualung #strange #beautiful #song #love #obsession #infatuation

  10. A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

    «
    HOBBES: First, your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.
    CALVIN: That’s love?!?
    HOBBES: Me…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/watterson-bill/4078/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #infatuation #love #passion

  11. A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

    «
    HOBBES: First, your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.
    CALVIN: That’s love?!?
    HOBBES: Me…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/watterson-bill/4078/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #infatuation #love #passion

  12. A quotation from Watterson, Bill:

    «
    HOBBES: First, your heart falls into your stomach and splashes your innards. All the moisture makes you sweat profusely. This condensation shorts the circuits to your brain, and you get all woozy. When your brain burns out altogether, your mouth disengages and you babble like a cretin until she leaves.
    CALVIN: That’s love?!?
    HOBBES: Me…
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/watterson-bill/4078/

    #quote #quotes #quotation #infatuation #love #passion

  13. My Book Boyfriends

    "what leads to it? what could be the underlying reasons for it to happen? is it just the so-called infatuation? so many questions. I needed to try to answer some of these..."

    booksperience.org/2023/12/27/m

    #BookBoyfriend, #BookGirlfriend, #BookLovers, #BookPartner, #Bookish, #BookishThings, #Books, #Fiction, #HarryPotter, #Imaginary, #Imagination, #Infatuation, #Readers, #Reading, #Relationships, #SiriusBlack

  14. A quotation from Millay, Edna St. Vincent:

    «
    I turn away reluctant from your light,
    And stand irresolute, a mind undone,
    A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sight
    From having looked too long upon the sun.
    »

    Full quote, sourcing, notes:
    wist.info/millay-edna-st-vince

    #quote #quotes #quotation #blinding #face #gaze #infatuation #love

  15. CW: Random queer thoughts related to "do I want to be her or do I want to date her?"

    I'm revisiting something I wrote about a year ago and feel compelled to share this excerpt from it:

    "I thought I wanted to be you, so much so that on dates with men, I started imitating your mannerisms--your ways of speaking and flirting. I have been you so much that I have forgotten what parts of me are you and what parts of me are me. Now, only a decade later, can I say that I wanted to be you because I couldn't have you, so being you was the next best thing. But perhaps I could love myself more if I recognize that I didn't want to be you so much as I wanted to love you."

    #Saphhic #yearning #bisexual #bisexuality #LGBTQ #ComingOutAsAnAdult #Queer #RandomThoughts #love #infatuation #desire #sex #SelfCompassion #SelfForgiveness #Healing #writing

  16. CW: Random queer thoughts related to "do I want to be her or do I want to date her?"

    I'm revisiting something I wrote about a year ago and feel compelled to share this excerpt from it:

    "I thought I wanted to be you, so much so that on dates with men, I started imitating your mannerisms--your ways of speaking and flirting. I have been you so much that I have forgotten what parts of me are you and what parts of me are me. Now, only a decade later, can I say that I wanted to be you because I couldn't have you, so being you was the next best thing. But perhaps I could love myself more if I recognize that I didn't want to be you so much as I wanted to love you."

    #Saphhic #yearning #bisexual #bisexuality #LGBTQ #ComingOutAsAnAdult #Queer #RandomThoughts #love #infatuation #desire #sex #SelfCompassion #SelfForgiveness #Healing #writing

  17. CW: Random queer thoughts related to "do I want to be her or do I want to date her?"

    I'm revisiting something I wrote about a year ago and feel compelled to share this excerpt from it:

    "I thought I wanted to be you, so much so that on dates with men, I started imitating your mannerisms--your ways of speaking and flirting. I have been you so much that I have forgotten what parts of me are you and what parts of me are me. Now, only a decade later, can I say that I wanted to be you because I couldn't have you, so being you was the next best thing. But perhaps I could love myself more if I recognize that I didn't want to be you so much as I wanted to love you."

    #Saphhic #yearning #bisexual #bisexuality #LGBTQ #ComingOutAsAnAdult #Queer #RandomThoughts #love #infatuation #desire #sex #SelfCompassion #SelfForgiveness #Healing #writing

  18. CW: Random queer thoughts related to "do I want to be her or do I want to date her?"

    I'm revisiting something I wrote about a year ago and feel compelled to share this excerpt from it:

    "I thought I wanted to be you, so much so that on dates with men, I started imitating your mannerisms--your ways of speaking and flirting. I have been you so much that I have forgotten what parts of me are you and what parts of me are me. Now, only a decade later, can I say that I wanted to be you because I couldn't have you, so being you was the next best thing. But perhaps I could love myself more if I recognize that I didn't want to be you so much as I wanted to love you."

    #Saphhic #yearning #bisexual #bisexuality #LGBTQ #ComingOutAsAnAdult #Queer #RandomThoughts #love #infatuation #desire #sex #SelfCompassion #SelfForgiveness #Healing #writing

  19. I used to think being heartbroken is the worst feeling ever. It's not. Breaking someone else's is.

    My latest essay: “Running away from love.”

    cynicusrex.com/file/philophobi

  20. I used to think being heartbroken is the worst feeling ever. It's not. Breaking someone else's is.

    My latest essay: “Running away from love.”

    cynicusrex.com/file/philophobi #love #infatuation #heartbreak #philosophy

  21. I used to think being heartbroken is the worst feeling ever. It's not. Breaking someone else's is.

    My latest essay: “Running away from love.”

    cynicusrex.com/file/philophobi #love #infatuation #heartbreak #philosophy

  22. I used to think being heartbroken is the worst feeling ever. It's not. Breaking someone else's is.

    My latest essay: “Running away from love.”

    cynicusrex.com/file/philophobi #love #infatuation #heartbreak #philosophy

  23. Falling in love is a strange thing for me bc it kinda comes out of nowhere and with no real explanation. I can spend years pining after someone only to wonder in hindsight what exactly I saw in them. But as a romantic and a poet at heart, I know that it's something in the way they move, the sound of their voice, their smile, something so uniquely and mundanely them that is special to me even when there's potentially millions of people with similar traits.

    #romance #love #romantic #infatuation

  24. Falling in love is a strange thing for me bc it kinda comes out of nowhere and with no real explanation. I can spend years pining after someone only to wonder in hindsight what exactly I saw in them. But as a romantic and a poet at heart, I know that it's something in the way they move, the sound of their voice, their smile, something so uniquely and mundanely them that is special to me even when there's potentially millions of people with similar traits.

    #romance #love #romantic #infatuation

  25. Falling in love is a strange thing for me bc it kinda comes out of nowhere and with no real explanation. I can spend years pining after someone only to wonder in hindsight what exactly I saw in them. But as a romantic and a poet at heart, I know that it's something in the way they move, the sound of their voice, their smile, something so uniquely and mundanely them that is special to me even when there's potentially millions of people with similar traits.

    #romance #love #romantic #infatuation

  26. @wordofthehour

    The #german word you list is off in this context

    Here " #zerdrücken" (english "flatten") is a better term

    German "#Schwarm" is a term for #infatuation ...

  27. @wordofthehour

    The #german word you list is off in this context

    Here " #zerdrücken" (english "flatten") is a better term

    German "#Schwarm" is a term for #infatuation ...