Best 12 quotes in «milk and honey quotes» category

the idea that we are so capable of love but still choose to be toxic

love is not cruel we are cruel love is not a game we have made a game out of love

Do not beg for what does not want to stay.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

to do list (after the breakup) 1. take refuge in your bed 2. cry. till the tears stop (this will take a few days). 3. don’t listen to slow songs. 4. delete their number from your phone even though it is memorized on your fingertips. 5. don’t look at old photos. 6. find the closest ice cream shop and treat yourself to two scoops of mint chocolate chip. the mint will calm your heart. you deserve the chocolate. 7. buy new bed sheets. 8. collect all the gifts, t-shirts, and everything with their smell on it and drop it off at a donation center. 9. plan a trip. 10. perfect the art of smiling and nodding when someone brings their name up in conversation. 11. start a new project. 12. whatever you do. do not call. 13. do not beg for what does not want to stay. 14. stop crying at some point. 15. allow yourself to feel foolish for believing you could’ve built the rest of your life in someone else’s stomach. 16. breathe.

Instead of passing blithely over into that Promised Land, flowing almost literally with milk and honey, it may be our destiny to wander a full 40 years or more in the wilderness of doubt and divided sentiments.

I said, 'Oh, I know. If the white folks is in Heaven too, then the black angels were in the kitchen, preparing the milk and honey.'

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

O happy, golden age! Not for that rivers ran With streams of milk, and honey dropped from trees

Icarus should have waited for nightfall, the moon would have never let him go.

emptying out of my mother's belly was my first act of disappearance learning to shrink for a family who likes their daughters invisible was the second the art of being empty is simple believe them when they say you are nothing repeat it to yourself like a wish i am nothing i am nothing i am nothing so often the only reason you know you're still alive is from the heaving of your chest

i can't tell if my mother is terrified or in love with my father it all looks the same i flinch when you touch me i fear it is him