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If there is “better”, then there is a “best”. If there is “half”, then there is a “complete”. Far more than being a “better half”, you can be a “best complete”; like a word/phrase that beautifies and gives meaning to a sentence when it is added. ↗

— Olaotan Fawehinmi

#best-complete #better #better-half #complete #half

To love is to destroy, and that to be loved is to be the one destroyed" -Jace Herondale ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#themortalinstruments #love

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor. ↗

— Ramsey Clark

#islam #kindness #love #peace #religion

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#compassion #inspiration #inspirational

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#healing #love #oneness #pain #love

I "love" reading. It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind. I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry. ↗

— Moffat Machingura

#caeser #christ #christianity #confucius #consume

Often we fail to consider the fact that our social, spiritual, and intellectual interests are miles apart. Our value systems and goals are contradictory, but we are in love. ↗

— Gary Chapman

#falling-in-love #love #marriage #relationship #short-term-feeling

God allows man to learn His supernatural ends, but the decision to strive towards an end, the choice of course, is left to man's free will. God does not redeem man against his will. ↗

— John Paul II

#redemption #salvation #vocation #love

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophical #philosophy #relationships #wisdom #love

Treating a person as a means to an end, and an end moreover which in this case is pleasure, the maximization of pleasure, will always stand in the way of love. ↗

— John Paul II

#sex #sexuality #love