#love

She died." I had to prompt him. "Soon after?" "In the early hours of February the nineteenth, 1916." I tried to see the expression on his face, but it was too dark. "There was a typhoid epidemic. She was working in a hospital." "Poor girl." "All past. All under the sea." "You make it seem present." "I do not wish to make you sad." "The scent of lilac." "Old man's sentiment. Forgive me." There was a silence between us. He was staring into the night. The bat flitted so low that I saw its silhouette for a brief moment against the Milky Way. "Is this why you never married?" "The dead live." The blackness of the trees. I listened for footsteps, but none came. A suspension. "How do they live?" And yet again he let the silence come, as if the silence would answer my questions better than he could himself; but just when I had decided he would not answer, he spoke. "By love. ↗

— John Fowles

#forgiveness

You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #loneliness #love #forgiveness

When we touch...our gods lay down their weapons and I can forgive every trespass... ↗

— Katie Waitman

#love #power-of-love #forgiveness

Five Truths About Your Inner Voice: 1. It is here, always available, wherever you are, however you feel, whatever you have done. 2. It is solely on your side. 3. It knows what's absolutely right for you. 4. It is your friend, your ally, your guide, your ultimate supporter. 5. It is always with you and for you. Whenever you're feeling perplexed, uneasy, anxious, mad, frustrated, sick, or any other other way you don't want to feel, ask your Inner Voice. Listen. ↗

— Noelle Sterne

#inspirational #self-aware #self-awareness-honesty-self #self-improvement #dreams

...it's easy to express romantic love - harder to manage daily love - to forgive failings close to feelings - to divide self from soul... ↗

— John Geddes

#forgiveness #romantic-love #self-help #soul #wisde-words

Jesus said his disciples would be known for their love, not for their placards of protest and angry letters to the editor. ↗

— Brian Zahnd

#christianity #discipleship #jesus #love #forgiveness

* The act of true giving is indistinguishable from receiving. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#forgive #love #forgiveness

Love is what happens when we forgive. I forgive Connor Evans. A part of me will always love him, but from this day on I won't hate him. Not for one minute. I forgive him because he gave me Max. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury Ocean's Apart

#love #forgiveness

When you say "I love you", I expect you to prove it. ↗

— Neshialy S.

#inspirational #love #inspirational

It seems we need someone to know us as we are--with all we have done--and forgive us. We need to tell. We need to be whole in someone's sight: Know this about me, and yet love me. Please. ...for...others it seems there must be a person to redeem us to ourselves. It isn't enough, apparently, to know oneself. To forgive oneself in secret. ↗

— Sue Miller

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