#ai

I see enormous loves growing immense and finally crushing me. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#pain #sacrifice #love

I know a man who is in love with my friend. He loves her absolutely. The only thing he wants in return is for her to love him.” Saiman arched his eyebrows, imitating me. “And?” "You’re the exact opposite of him. You lack the capacity to love, so you want to smother mine as well. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#saiman #love

Socially inferior animals are the ones that make the most strenuous, resourceful efforts to get to know their keepers. They prove to be the ones most faithful to them…it is a fact commonly known in the trade. ↗

— Yann Martel

#faith

I stared at her black hair. It was shiny like the promises in magazines. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#magazine #promises #love

I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us, and we drown. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#love

The problem with certainty is that it is static; it can do little but endlessly reassert itself. Uncertainty, by contrast, is full of unknowns, possibilities, and risks. (65) ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#faith #questioning #spirituality #faith

I rather live as if God exists to find out that He doesn't than live as if he doesn't exist to find out He does. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#religion #faith

Much of what we called "depression" was really dissatisfaction, a result of setting a bar impossibly high or expecting treasures we weren't willing to work for. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#faith #happiness #mitch-albom #satisfaction #faith

Whatever has befallen you was not meant to escape you, and whatever has escaped you was not meant to befall you. ↗

— Aidh bin Abdullah al-Qarni

#islam #positivity #faith

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#fighting #gurney-halleck #practice #preparation #training