#ip

You and I are victims of the same disease. We're fighting the same war, just different battles in different theatres,and it's way too late for me to hate you for anything, because we're the same damn thing. My soul, your conscience,whatever's left of me woven into whatever's left of you, all tangled up and conjoined. We're in this together,corpse. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#corpses #hate #partnership #zombies #conscience

Stuart needs "space" and "time," as if this were physics and not a human relationship. ↗

— Kathryn Stockett

#heartbreak #relationship #space #heartbreak

You can’t bring an unwritten place to life without losing something substantial. Manila is the cradle, the graveyard, the memory. The Mecca, the Cathedral, the bordello. The shopping mall, the urinal, the discotheque. I’m hardly speaking in metaphor. It’s the most impermeable of cities. How does one convey all that? ↗

— Miguel Syjuco

#philippines #life

If you do what we ask you to do, the victories will belong to you, and the losses to me. ↗

— Dean Smith

#submission #leadership

Our community with one another consists solely in what Christ has done to each of us. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#fellowship #life #life

Jesus, Willard says, “does not call us to do what he did, but to be as he was, permeated with love. Then the doing of what he did and said becomes the natural expression of who we are in him. ↗

— Dallas Willard

#life

If you avoid all of life's abrasions, you will never be polished enough to shine. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#hardships #life #life-lessons #richelle #richelle-goodrich

The most precious gift to give to your spouse is not your life because if you die,he/she will no longer have use of you rather the most precious gift is your time, attention, affection, self and love! ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#gift #living #love #marriage #precious

It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#fellowship-of-the-ring #j-r-r-tolkien #the-lord-of-the-rings #the-shire #life

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#relationships #relationships