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Years later, my wife, Ilusion, woke me up to the realization that you can't just "dump" your whole species simply because you've had a few bad encounters with some of its members. ... Intimacy's a greater goal to seek. ...That true knowledge of intimacy within our own species will allow us to pass it along to interspecies relations. ↗

— Cesar Millan

#dogs #show-love-for-dogs #love

The soul yearns to fly home on the wings of love to the world of ideas. It longs to be freed from the chains of the body. ↗

— Jostein Gaarder

#love

There was after all no mystery in the end of love, no mystery but the mystery of love itself, which was large certainly but as real as grass, as natural and unaccountable as bloom and branch and their growth. ↗

— John Crowley

#branch #grass #growth #love #mystery

Though much is taken, much abides; and though we are not now that strength which in old days moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are – unyielding. ↗

— Paullina Simons

#invincible #love #strength #tatiana-and-alexander #the-bridge-to-holy-cross

While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it's often much more difficult to heal them. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love

Fascination with horses predated every other single thing I knew. Before I was a mother, before I was a writer, before I knew the facts of life, before I was a schoolgirl, before I learned to read, I wanted a horse. ↗

— Jane Smiley

#racing #life

This much is certain, that we have no theological right to set any sort of limits to the loving-kindness of God which has appeared in Jesus Christ. Our theological duty is to see and understand it as being still greater than we had seen before. ↗

— Karl Barth

#universalism #love

You see how it is godlike to love the being of someone. Your existence is a delight to us. I hope you never have to long for a child as I did, but oh, what a splendid thing it has been that you came finally, and what a blessing to enjoy you now for almost seven years. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#longing #love #parenthood #love

It's a good thing I love you, because you officially just scared the shit out of me." "A good thing yea," Dante agreed, squeezing her hand before releasing it. "She's not alone in those sentiments," the Morningstar said, "Except for the love. I make no clamis there yet, little creaw-Dante ↗

— Adrian Phoenix

#love

Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#lechery #love #lust #love