#love

I still don't know if things fit together, or if everything will be all right in the end. But I believe that something means something. I believe in cleansing the soul through fun and games. I also believe in love. And I have several good friends, and just one bad one. ↗

— Erlend Loe

#life #love #soul #life

... If the dead can come back to this earth and move unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night—amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours—always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or if the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#always #arbell #around #breath #breeze

But love is a comlication he wished to avoid. He had no desire for his life to be visited by that particular miracle. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#life

It was books that kept me from taking my own life after I thought I could never love anyone, never be loved by anyone again. It was books that made me feel that perhaps I was not completely alone. They could be honest with me, and I with them. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#book-lover #books #company #honesty #loneliness

No matter how much you revisit the past, there's nothing new to see. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #love #past #quote #quotes

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#love #life

The very best and the very worst of life will come from [their] ability to love strangers. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#hurt #life #love #life

She supposed they were imperfections, these marks, but they didn't feel that way to her; they were a history, cut into his body, the map of a life of endless war. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#life

First of all, you have to keep unmasking the world about you for what it is: manipulative, controlling, power-hungry, and, in the long run, destructive. The world tells you many lies about who you are, and you simply have to be realistic enough to remind yourself of this. Every time you feel hurt, offended, or rejected, you have to dare to say to yourself: 'These feelings, strong as they may be, are not telling me the truth about myself. The truth, even though I cannot feel it right now, is that I am the chosen child of God, precious in God's eyes, called the Beloved from all eternity, and held safe in an everlasting belief. ↗

— Henri J.M. Nouwen

#god-s-love #life

Every night I tell my children all of the things that I love about them. I tell them how proud I am of their accomplishments and how much better our lives have been since they were born. I hope they will always realize how much they are loved and valued. I feel so blessed that they are in my life. ↗

— Tom Giaquinto

#children #hope #kids #love #proud