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The idea that their paths might have easily not crossed leaves her breathless, like a near-miss accident on a highway, and she can't help marveling at the sheer randomness of it all. Like any survivor of chance, she feels a quick rush of thankfulness, part adrenaline and part hope. ↗

— Jennifer E. Smith

#hope #yalit #love

How can I be kind? How can I find bird-relief in the nest-building of day-to-day? Necessity supplies no velvet wing with which to escape. I am indeed and mortally pierced with the seeds of love. ↗

— Elizabeth Smart

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From moment then to moment their desire Gained strength, and wisdom fled before love's fire; Passion engulfed them, and these lovers lay Entwined together till the break of day. ↗

— فردوسی

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All the bruised lives, searching hearts...Everyone wants a love story but few will risk what it takes to live one. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#love-story #relationships #love

আজিকে চাঁদ উঠবে প্রথম রাতে নদীর পারে নারিকেলের বনে, দেবালয়ের বিজন আঙিনাতে পড়বে আলো গাছের ছায়া-সনে । দখিন-হাওয়া উঠবে হঠাত্‍ বেগে, আসবে জোয়ার সঙ্গে তারি ছুটে- বাঁধা তরী টেউয়ের দোলা লেগে ঘাটের পরে মরবে মাথা কুটে । জোয়ার যখন মিশিয়ে যাবে কূলে, থমথমিয়ে আসবে যখন জল, বাতাস যখন পড়বে ঢুলে ঢুলে, চন্দ্র যখন নামবে অস্তাচল, শিথিল তনু তোমার ছোঁওয়া ঘুমে চরণতলে পড়বে লুটে তবে । বসে আছি শয়ন পাতি ভূমে, তোমার এবার সময় হবে কবে ? ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#poetry-love #poetry-quotes #wait #love

I had once read, in one of those pre-plague books in the library, that love was bearing witness. That it was the act of watching someone's life, of simply being there to say: you're life is worth seeing. ↗

— Anna Carey

#life

I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. ↗

— Albert Camus

#nationalism #patriotism #love

One can't love humanity. One can only love people. ↗

— Graham Greene

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Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back -- For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#show-love-for-dogs #love

If a man we don't know phones us up one day and talks a little, makes no suggestions, says nothing special, but nevertheless pays us the kind of attention we rarely receive, we're quite capable of going to bed with him that night, feeling relatively in love. That's what we women are like, and there's nothing wrong with that - it's the nature of the female to open herself to love easily. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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