#les

One by one, these disciples would infect the nations with grace. It wasn't a call to take the sword or the throne and force the world to bow. Rather, they were to live the contagious love of God, to woo the nations into a new future. ↗

— Shane Claiborne

#god #love #love

...and her dreams that didn't happen, that couldn't have happened because she'd pinned them on somebody too broken and unattainable to love her back. ↗

— Janette Rallison

#hopelessness #unrequited-love #dreams

Custom reconciles us to everything. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#everything #reconciles #us

Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#troubles #dreams

It wasn't until we dropped him at his university dormitory and left him there looking touchingly lost and bewildered amid an assortment of cardboard boxes and suitcases in a spartan room not unlike a prison cell that it really hit home that he was vanishing out of our lives and into his own. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#growing-up #love #parenthood #love

[T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age. ↗

— Susan Morris Shaffer

#boys-self-image #muscles #age

I feel the deepest, heartfelt pity for any adult who has never been in love. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#love #lovelessness #people #pity #quotable

William Shakespeare: Can you love a fool? Viola De Lesseps: Can you love a player? ↗

— Marc Norman

#viola-de-lesseps #william-shakespeare #love

The language itself, whether you speak it or not, whether you love it or hate it, is like some bewitchment or seduction from the past, drifting across the country down the centuries, subtly affecting the nations sensibilities even when its meaning is forgotten. ↗

— Jan Morris

#wales #love

Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#belief #in-the-foxholes #skepticism #life