#love

There. That is the answer to this riddle. The promises I can make, and the one I can't. Gwen. I will never leave you willingly. Life is a risk, and so love is, as well. But I swear to God, you will not regret the gamble. ↗

— Meredith Duran

#life #love #risk #life

Yeah, but you’re lucky, Janey, he said. You have so many good friends. You have people to do stuff with. You have more friends than time to hang out with them, and they’re all near you. Finding love is easy- it’s fate- you just sit back and let it happen, have faith that if it hasn’t yet, it will soon, but then that’s done, and you realize you’re on your own for the rest of your life. It’s up to you to make the rest of it happen because destiny is done with you, at least as far as your social life goes ↗

— Laurie Frankel

#faith

Listen to me, Amin," I said slowly. "Listen to me very carefully. Nothing is the same. Nothing will ever be the same again. There lives on this earth a woman who can be my friend and my lover. Do you understand that? Do you understand what a marvelous thing that is?" "A friend is a friend," Uthman interrupted, "and a woman is a woman. You can't have them in one person. The whole world knows that." "If that's what the whole world knows, ...then the whole world is wrong. I believed the whole world, and I lost her. ↗

— Barbara Cohen

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To love others you must first love yourself. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

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The brethren sometimes err in measuring the Divine love by the sinner's knowledge. ↗

— George Eliot

#gods-love #faith

Knowing and thinking exist for the sake of love -- for the sake of building people up in faith. Thinking that produces pride instead of love is not true thinking. ↗

— John Piper

#love #pride #thinking #faith

The language of love letters is the same as suicide notes. ↗

— Courtney Love

#language #love #suicide #death

The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it. ↗

— Laura Miller

#love

In God we Believe And god believes in love. ↗

— Ujas Soni

#faith #love #faith

If she had learned one thing from Rebecca it was that demonstrations of affection or even emotion were few and far between when it came to the Amish way of life. ↗

— Sarah Price

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