#iv

See with your own eyes, hear with your own ears, think your own thoughts, say what you must say, do what you must do, love all that you can and stand on your own two feet. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#individuality #love

By the time I realized I even had a heart at all, it already belonged to you. ↗

— Brittany Comeaux

#crystal #deliverance #fantasy #love #romance

People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation. ↗

— Marie-Louise von Franz

#creativity #writers #love

Who knew better than Raquel that nothing lasts. Hope fades. And love... love hurts. ↗

— Michelle Sutton

#love #romance #love

Nationality was the most pernicious, depersonalizing, homogenizing label that could ever be attached to the human individual. ↗

— Rolf Hochhuth

#love

I’m going to just go on loving you, even if it’s hopeless.” -Adrian- ↗

— Richelle Mead

#love #love

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong. ↗

— Eric Ludy

#motivational #love

It's not the coffee that unfurls our minds and spirits, but the meaningful conversation that accompanies it. It's not the coffee that lifts our eyes and awakens our bodies, but the time we take to make it. And it's not the coffee that prepares us for the day, but the encouraging words from those we love. ↗

— Sarah Lang

#love

The test of man then is not, 'How have I believed?' but 'How have I loved?'. The final test of religion is not religiousness, but love: not what I have done, not what I have believed, not what I have achieved, but how I have discharged the common charities of life. Sins of commission in that awful indictment are not even referred to. By what we have not done, by sins of omission, we are judged. It could not be otherwise. For the withholding of love is the negation of the Spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. Pastor Henry Drummond, 1890 ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life

The undivided heart is a good thing, as long as you love somebody. In fact, a divided heart that loves someone is better than an undivided heart that loves nobody -- the latter would actually be undivided egoism. It would mean having one's heart full, but with the most corrupting thing there is: oneself. Of this type of virgin and celibate, unfortunately none too rare, Charles Peguy has rightly said: "Because they do not belong to someone else, they think they belong to God. Because they love no one else, they think that they love God. ↗

— Raniero Cantalamessa

#love