#aloof

[ltwilliammowett]

Aloof

When sailing close to a lee shore (that is, with the wind blowing onto it), the helmsman might be instructed to hold the ship "a-luff" - that is, close to the wind - to prevent it crashing onto the rocks. To be " a-luff" , or aloof, therefore came to mean keeping your distance.

[astro-tag-9]

Moon signs most to least Zen

1- Aquarius Moon

2- Libra Moon

3- Sagittarius Moon

4- Taurus Moon

5- Virgo Moon

6- Pisces Moon

7- Capricorn Moon

8- Gemini Moon

9- Leo moon

10- Scorpio moon

11- Aries moon

12- Cancer moon

[howifeltabouthim]

But a show of love was something for which Rupert was entirely untrained. He did not even know how to lay his hand on Peter's arm without the gesture seeming artificial.

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[stormwolf1998]

Hiei > Yu Yu Hakusho

[ask-walter-and-vince]

Ca- can you tell Winston I think he's really cute 👉👈

[betweenthetimeandsound]

Silver hands, fairy dreams, I hear fragile bells ring on the branches of willows. In a dream I find her amongst the elves; wearing translucent skirts and starlight falls on her waist, a queen without a crown.

She offers her hands as a gift, but I find slashes on her arms; from those scars, lilacs bloom. But between the floating blossoms, I find myself falling into an abyss without end nor wings...

In the morning, the sun rises, but only overcast skies remain. I ache between my ribs; the weight of existence manifests through a paper crane stained with fresh blood and fresher ink. Life gives me no gifts, but I only want for marble to turn into flesh, for expectation to turn into reality, and for her to come thtrough the door. --Elda Mengisto

[blueeyeddarkknight]

Happy mother's day ❤️ to the mothers the ones who passed and the ones who are still with us. 🙏

"Love your mother, cherish your time together and don't forget to call her" _Val

[dreamdropsystemarchive]

always in their head, aloof

[danielflemingart]

Standing Guard Over Myself While I Sleep.

9x12"

Acrylic on paper

[boy-toy9000]

anyone up curating a persona of aloofness?

[snowbodyatall]

I am not antisocial I'm anti-kind people and so many people are so abrasive that I have retreated so far into myself that I come off as aloof or unapproachable, I just refuse to allow anyone the chance to disturb my peace in any way. Is it the healthiest thing to do, probably not, but it's working for me so far.

[dk-thrive]

The little aloofness that beauty needs.

— Helen Garner, Yellow Notebook: Diaries Volume I 1978-1987 (The Text Publishing Company, May 3, 2022)

[southcarolinawoman]

Al Parker

[howifeltabouthim]

But Rupert knew too that his whole training, the whole of the society which kept him so stiffly upright and so patently and pre-eminently successful, had deprived him gradually of the direct language of love. When he needed gestures, strong impetuous movements to overturn barriers, he found himself paralysed and cold. There is a path, he said to himself, because for love there is always one. But for him it was a mountain path with many twists and turns.

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[random-xpressions]

One subtle way of God inviting us to Him is by making us utterly tired of our fellow humans. Whatever evil is there on earth, makes one desire for some infinite good. You get hatred, you crave love. You get lies, you crave truth. You get desertion, you crave commitment. You get deception, you crave sincerity. You get spite, you crave affinity. When all of that you desired of good from this creation fails, that's when you find 'the Friend' there standing with a smile on his face asking silently: "Are you done knocking every closed door only to finally return to my door which was never even closed in the first place ever since you yourself chose to walk out of it?"

Random Xpressions

[haichengtual]

reading the night circus, it's nice