#love

A wife isn’t beaten until drunk.” – Proverb of one who finds that, between his bottle and her nagging, only one can pour forth endlessly. ↗

— Bauvard

#alcoholism #funny #love #funny

Our faces will become works of art that our grandchildren will treasure. ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#grandchildren #love #art

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#each #god #loves #only #us

Bright star, would I were stedfast as thou art-- Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature's patient, sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and the moors-- No--yet still stedfast, still unchangeable, Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast, To feel for ever its soft fall and swell, Awake for ever in a sweet unrest, Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath, And so live ever--or else swoon to death. Glanzvoller Stern! wär ich so stet wie du, Nicht hing ich nachts in einsam stolzer Pracht! SchautŽ nicht mit ewigem Blick beiseite zu, Einsiedler der Natur, auf hoher Wacht Beim Priesterwerk der Reinigung, das die See, Die wogende, vollbringt am Meeresstrand; Noch starrt ich auf die Maske, die der Schnee Sanft fallend frisch um Berg und Moore band. Nein, doch unwandelbar und unentwegt MöchtŽ ruhn ich an der Liebsten weicher Brust, Zu fühlen, wie es wogend dort sich regt, Zu wachen ewig in unruhiger Lust, Zu lauschen auf des Atems sanftes Wehen - So ewig leben - sonst im Tod vergehen! ↗

— John Keats

#deutsche-sprache #english-language #leidenschaft #liebe #love

Her life was like a burst of wild, flowing Chinese calligraphy, written under the influence of alcohol. ↗

— Weihui Zhou

#beauty #danger #life #love #sex

I found this, though," Gazzy said excitedly, holding up a small green box. "Gas-X! Like, 'X' for explosion! This is great! I'm thinking I rig this with a detonator and-" "Did you find that in the medicine cabinet?" Dylan asked. "Yeah." "It's for upset stomachs," Dylan said, trying to hide a smile. He pointed to the words on the box. "It's to reduce gas in you digestive system, not to create more gas to make explosions." Gazzy's face fell as Iggy said, "Really? Gazzy, take it! Take the whole box! ↗

— James Patterson

#funny #gas #humor #iggy-i-love-you #lol

You can have this kind of love. You can have it. You just grab it. Of course the problem with having that love is that you can lose it, too. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#love

I am not in love with him, I am in love with ghosts. So is he, he's in love with ghosts. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #the-past #love

What happens when we acknowledge the sovereignty and power of God without trusting in His goodness and faithfulness? A pitcher who saw God's power behind his extremely unlikely rise to the big leagues wondered if, at any difficulty he encountered there, God might be taking his ability away. ↗

— Michael Lewis

#love-of-god #sovereignty-of-god #art

This is joy's bonfire, then, where love's strong arts Make of so noble individual parts One fire of four inflaming eyes, and of two loving hearts. ↗

— John Donne

#marriage #union #art