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I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together? ↗

— Bella Andre

#conflict #love #love

Love can really screw you up before you figure out how to live with it. And once you do? You wonder how the hell you ever lived without it ↗

— Nora Roberts

#love #love

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry. ↗

— Rumi

#spirit #love

I wanted to drown inside a woman in the feeling and drooling of the love I could give her. I wanted her pulse to crush me with its intensity. That's what I wanted. That's what I wanted myself to be. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#feeling #intensity #want #what-i-want #woman

He lives in my heart and now I must pay for the sin of my own heart. Cut it out! Cut it out! It is the offender, not my head. I have loved and I will be punished for it! ↗

— Katheryn Howard

#tudor #love

To question the world around us and all its complexities is not blasphamy, but simply using the mind God gave us for its intended purpous. God is an artist. Artist do not create to have someone just glance and say "That is pretty." Artist want viewers to look closer, deeper--to really see what they have created--not just glance. ↗

— Cristina Marrero

#god #love #questions #love

I can live without a boy. So why does it feel like I'm going to die? ↗

— Daria Snadowsky

#love #young-adult #love

Yet who reads to bring about an end, however desirable? Are there not some pursuits that we practise because they are good in themselves, and some pleasures that are final? And is not this among them? I have sometimes dreamt, at least, that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards–their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble–the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when he sees us coming with our books under our arms, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#reading #love

Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of our old self for the sake of the new. ↗

— Jalaja Bonheim

#love

Mom put dense cheddar bread into a bag for a man who said this was his wife's favorite - he'd driven all the way from New Jersey to buy it because today was their anniversary. Several women in the store jabbed their husbands on hearing this. I hung my head - Peter Terris wouldn't cross the street to buy me a Twinkie. (Thwonk) ↗

— Joan Bauer

#bakery #love #unrequited-love #love