#love

She simply cannot let go of love- and who can blame that? Is it not the hardest thing in the world to relinquish, once you have it? ↗

— Jude Morgan

#love

The road is a strange place. Shuffling along, I looked up and you were there walking across the grass toward my truck on an August day. In retrospect, it seems inevitable - it could not have been any other way-- a case of what I call the high probability of the improbable ↗

— Robert James Waller

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What mattered to her was that she loved God, whether or not He granted her the consolation and joy of His felt presence. ↗

— Brian Kolodiejchuk

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Not by blaming the world, not by shunning the world, but only be loving the world can I have peace of mind ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#world #love

The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

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Watching him during the first several minutes of his delivery, Cecilia felt a pleasant sinking sensation in her stomach as she contemplated how deliciously self-destructive it would be, almost erotic, to be married to a man so nearly handsome, so hugely rich, so unfathomably stupid. He would fill her with his big-faced children, all of them loud, boneheaded boys with a passion for guns and football and aeroplanes. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog. ↗

— Sydney Jeanne Seward

#pets #love

They found grace out in the desert, these people who survived the killing. Israel, out looking for a place to rest, met God out looking for them!" God told them, "I've never quit loving you and never will. Expect love, love, and more love! And so now I'll start over with you and build you up again, dear virgin Israel. You'll resume your singing, grabbing tambourines and joining the dance. You'll go back to your old work of planting vineyards on the Samaritan hillsides, And sit back and enjoy the fruit— oh, how you'll enjoy those harvests! The time's coming when watchmen will call out from the hilltops of Ephraim: 'On your feet! Let's go to Zion, go to meet our God! ↗

— Anonymous

#god #israel #love #scripture #zion

Love transforms pleasure into pain. ↗

— Imam Al-Busiri

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Without love everything can be nothing. Does that make me want to love? No. For me, Ignorance is still better than martyrdom. ↗

— Ira N. Barin

#ignorance #love #martyrdom #nothingness #numbness