#devotion

The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. ↗

— Robert Frost

#love #poetry #love

If the sum of living be love's fee, Tremble. You are my one eternity. ↗

— Laura Benet

#emotion #love #philosophy #love

He will not take her.” Sabelle turned toward the booming declaration. Ice. His protective gaze was as tangible as a caress. She swallowed. “Of course not,” Duke assured. “Sabelle is too important to our cause.” Ice stormed around the table until he hovered beside her, mere inches away, his body heat pouring over her. “If there is a breath left in my body, he will not take her. ↗

— Shayla Black

#love

I would die for you if you want, but if you really want me to die I won’t. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #love

I'll be anything you want, just tell me what you want and I'll be that. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#illness

The credit belongs to those who are actually in the arena, who strive valiantly; who know the great enthusiasums, the great devotions, and spend themselves in a worthy cause; who at best know the triumph of high achievement; and who, at worst, if they fail, fail while daring greatly, so that their place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#ambition #brave #caring #devotion #victory

Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. ↗

— Zhuangzi

#ceremonies #charity #devotion #lost #man

The discipline of daily devotion to God undergirds decisions. ↗

— Edwin Louis Cole

#decisions #devotion #discipline #god

The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scriptures. He can hold God dear in the form of union—as his own Self, or in samadhi. All forms of God are equally suitable for love. (165) ↗

— Prem Prakash

#devotion #god #love #relationship #spiritual-relationship

With devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. ↗

— Thomas Fuller

#devil #devotion #himself #pious #sugar