#devotion

We were both satellites orbiting Denny’s sun, struggling for gravitational supremacy. Of course, she had the advantage of her tongue and her thumbs, and when I watched her kiss and fondle him sometimes she would glance at me and wink as if to gloat: Look at my thumbs! See what they can do! ↗

— Garth Stein

#dogs #thumbs #art

Tell your friend that in his death, a part of you dies and goes with him. Wherever he goes, you also go. He will not be alone. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#companionship #death #devotion #death

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one ... he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

#creative-process #determination #devotion #empowerment #energy

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#inspirational-religious #inspirational

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God. ↗

— Saint Patrick

#faithfulness #loyalty #perseverance #faith

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating. ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love #promise #love

In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #love

How far should a person go in the name of true love? ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #self-sacrifice #true-love #love

With my last breath, I’ll exhale my love for you. I hope it’s a cold day, so you can see what you meant to me.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cold #commitment #devotion #dying #exhale

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love