#ria

The two hardest tests on the spiritual road are the patience to wait for the right moment and the courage not to be disappointed with what we encounter. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage #patience #trials-of-life #courage

You've asked me out tons of times." "Not really. I've made inappropriate suggestions and frequently pushed for nudity. But I've never asked you out on a real date. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#rose-hathaway #dating

So that's how you're going to fix the family problem. Little Dragomirs. Good idea. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#page- #family

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian) ↗

— Richelle Mead

#humor #humor

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#fighting #inspirational #trial #inspirational

I don't want to be married just to be married. I can't think of anything lonelier than spending the rest of my life with someone I can't talk to, or worse, someone I can't be silent with. ↗

— Mary Ann Shaffer

#marriage #silence #talk #life

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #love

Love, n. A temporary insanity curable by marriage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#love #marriage #love

Unless I understand the Cross, I cannot understand why my commitment to what is right must be precedence over what I prefer. ↗

— Ravi Zacharias

#marriage #relationships #love

I did not think you would be angry, Jem burst out, and it was like ice cracking across a frozen waterfall, freeing a torrent. We were engaged, Tessa. A proposal-an offer of marriage-is a promise. A promise to love and care for someone always. I did not mean to break mine to you. But it was that or die. I wanted to wait, to be married to you and live wit you for years, but that wasn't possible. I was dying too fast. I would have given it up-all of it up-to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder-a reminder of everything I am losing. The life I will not have. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clockwork-princess #jem-carstairs #loss #love #marriage