#ness

That this girl would know exactly how to shatter me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#romance #sadness #love

If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve. ↗

— John Ortberg

#greatness #love #mother-teresa #serve #service

[I]t doesn’t matter whom you love or where you move from or to, you always take yourself with you. If you don’t know who you are, or if you’ve forgotten or misplaced her, then you’ll always feel as if you don’t belong. Anywhere. (xiii) ↗

— Sarah Breathnach

#life #love #place #self-awareness #self-knowledge

Okay, if this is what falling in love feels like, someone please kill me now. (Not literally, overzealous readers.) But it was all too much—too much emotion, too much happiness, too much longing, perhaps too much ice cream… ↗

— James Patterson

#feelings #happiness #happy #ice-cream #ice-cream-is-love

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#kindness #love #truth #love

The loneliest days are the ones where you keep company with someone you love who can’t hear you. ↗

— Holly Robinson

#longing #relationships-love #love

True happiness is when the love that is within us finds expression in external activities. ↗

— Mata Amritanandamayi

#love #love

Do what makes you happy Be with who makes yu smile Laugh as much as you breathe Love as long as you live ↗

— sophia adams

#love #love

She thought in would be awkward for both to be brought into conscious collision; and fancied that, from her being on a low seat at first, and now standing behind her father, he had overlooked her in his haste. As if he did not feel the consciousness of her presence all over, though his eyes had never rested on her! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#love #love

...I lost my illusions in a black rain of bitterness - now what do you see in my eyes? How can you still love me? How can I be tender? ... ↗

— John Geddes

#despair #eyes #illusions #love #rain