#los

The only people out at this hour were ones who couldn't sleep,those haunted by one thing or another:love thwarted, love lost, love thrown away. They were the sort of people who didn't want to be noticed, who wanted to slip through shadows, be alone with their despair. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#love

Every time you spend money, you're casting a vote for the kind of world you want. ↗

— Anna Lappe

#philosophy #money

Human beings are placed on this physical plane to learn diverse lessons; with the assistance of unconditional DIVINE LOVE, let us try our best to learn what these lessons are while moving on to higher levels of positive consciousness. ↗

— Ann-Marie Anthony-Williams

#love

She thought of Henry and Diana on the stoop gazing at each other with the confusion and sadness of two puppies who have just stumbled into their first puddle and not yet come to understand what has happened to them and found that she wanted to lie extravagantly. ↗

— Anna Godbersen

#love #love-lost #sadness #love

I have seen enough, too, to know that it is not always the youngest and best who are spared to those that love them; but this should give us comfort rather than sorrow, for Heaven is just, and such things teach us impressively that there is a far brighter world than this, and that the passage to it is speedy. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#loss #love

The other four houses yielded jewelry, wallets, credit cards, laptops, iPads and Kindles, even a couple of expensive looking vases... "You didn't do anything stupid like writing IOU's and signing your name, did you?" asked Eric 'That's an excellent idea," said Danny. He stepped back through the gate, waited for a count of five, and then returned to Eric. Now Eric was standing and when he saw Danny he visibly sagged with relief. "What kind of moron are you?" "The fun loving kind," said Danny. "I'm not an idiot, of course I didn't sign my name to IOUs." "Good." "I signed yours. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#the-lost-gate #love

It is reasonable to love the Absolute absolutely for the same reason it is reasonable to love the relative relatively. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#absolutism #catholicism #christianity #god #jesus-shock

Love is the centre of all the Emotions or feelings. ↗

— Nikhil Yadav

#philosophy #relationship #love

Jack sprung to his feet out of reach. "I'd prefer to finish this intact. " "My apologies,” Cabal said, grinning viciously. "l keep forgetting, you're only human." His smile softened to full amusement as Jack raised his sword in challenge. "Human or not," Jack said as he slowly approached him. "I carry the advantage of unworldly knowledge. " " Is that what you're doing?" Cabal laughed; "Something unworldly?" "I have a vast library of knowledge inside my head from my homeland." "What knowledge could your world offer that would be useful here?" "How about a toilet?" Jack winked at Nicole. “Perhaps you should build one and leave us all in awe.” Cabal declared. “People could call them ‘Jacks’ for short.” Nicole added to the conversation. ↗

— Alaina Stanford

#adventure #erotica #humor #loss #love

Hate is bait for the devil, love is the gate to god ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#philosophical #philosophy #relationships #wisdom #love