#ness

He looked haggard and careworn, like a Borgia who has suddenly remembered that he has forgotten to shove cyanide in the consommé, and the dinner-gong due any moment. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#forgetfulness #humor #poison #unhappiness #humor

When it comes down to it, even on the natural plane, it is much happier and more enlivening to love than to be loved. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#love #love

Thank you for loving me like you love me. Thank you for showing me that we don't always have to be strong to be there for each other--that it's okay to be weak, so long as we're there. ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love #strength #weakness #love

That's one of the things we learn as we grow older -- how to forgive. It comes easier at forty than it did at twenty. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#forgiveness #growing-up #life-lessons #age

He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#men #nakedness #humor

Don't seek love externally, it's fleeting. Go beyond the ego and awaken the love that already exists within; it will encompass everyone and everything in your life; it will permeate your very being. ↗

— Danielle Pierre

#consciousness #life #love #spirituality #life

The heart which has no agenda but God's is the heart at leisure from itself. Its emptiness is filled with the Love of God. Its solitude can be turned into prayer. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#love

In a world full of commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#compassion #healing #hope #kindness #love

Secret of happiness: eating chocolate as one makes love. Making love as one eat chocolate. ↗

— Guto Graca

#happiness #love

There's nothing wrong with helping someone without a cost. Especially if there's no end return. ↗

— Solange nicole

#compassion-wisdom #love #people #selflessness #solange