#love

Peace is the fruit of love, a love that is also justice. But to grow in love requires work -- hard work. And it can bring pain because it implies loss -- loss of the certitudes, comforts, and hurts that shelter and define us. ↗

— Jean Vanier

#peace-making #peacemaking #social-justice #love

In Chinese love stories the one who loves always starts by borrowing a book from the beloved. ↗

— Dai Sijie

#love #love

You keep distracting me,” I tell her. “All I’m doing is sitting here talking to you!” “Exactly,” I say, and I smile at her.j ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#distraction #humor #love #oliver #humor

From now on when a boy starts telling me about his lost loves I am going to run in the opposite direction screaming loudly... Somehow I bring out such confidences, and I'm pretty sick of hearing about Bobbe or Dorothy or P.K. or Liota. God damn them all. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#lost-loves #humor

And at that moment, a lilting melody lifts to the moon as a single sparrow sings. ↗

— Lisa Ann Sandell

#medieval #love

Man wants three things; life, knowledge, and love. ↗

— Fulton J. Sheen

#life #love #wants #life

She had lost herself somewhere along the frontier between her inventions, her stories, her fantasies and her true self. The boundaries had become effaced, the tracks lost, she had walked into pure chaos, and not a chaos which carried her like the galloping of romantic riders in operas and legends, but which suddenly revealed the stage props: a papier-mâché horse. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#love

Because she deserved more than me. She deserved someone who could give her the whole universe. ↗

— Jacqueline Rayner

#love #mickey #rose-tyler #love

She wants to know if I love her, that’s all anyone wants from anyone else, not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet. ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#safety #love

A good lover will do that, see something worthwhile in you that you never knew was there. And when there's something you don't like to see in yourself a good lover won't see it either. ↗

— Ana Castillo

#love