#rin

Calm down, it isn't a ring” I laughed and he pushed the box across the table to me and I blushed and opened it. ↗

— Mercy Cortez

#happiness #jagged-edge #love #ring #love

We live forever by the grace of human love, which rocked strange children in their cradles and did not despair and did not turn away. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories. ↗

— Joshua Foer

#remembering #visual #art

Comme son amour fut immense, Immense fut sa souffrance. ↗

— Giovanni Battista Ferrandini

#suffering #love

Sometimes, in the still watches of the night, when he lies in bed beside her, Tanis will find himself thinking of me. He will remember my last words, he will be touched by them. I have given them their happiness. And she must live with the knowledge that I will live always in Tanis’s heart. What love they might find together, I have poisoned. My revenge upon them both is complete. Now, have you brought what I sent you for? ↗

— Margaret Weis

#love

God's high freedom in Jesus Christ is His freedom for LOVE. The divine capacity which operates and exhibits itself in that superiority and subordination is manifestly also God's capacity to bend downwards, to attach Himself to another and this other to Himself, to be together with him. This takes place in that irreversible sequence, but in it is completely real. In that sequence there arises and continues in Jesus Christ the highest communion of God with man. God's deity is thus no prison in which He can exist only in and for Himself. It is rather His freedom to be in and for Himself but also with and for us, to assert but also to sacrifice Himself, to be wholly exalted but also completely humble, not only almighty but also almighty mercy, not only Lord but also servant, not only judge but also Himself the judged, not only man's eternal king but also his brother in time. And all that without in the slightest forfeiting His deity! All that, rather, in the highest proof and proclamation of His deity! He who DOES and manifestly CAN do all that, He and no other is the living God. ↗

— Karl Barth

#god #jesus #man #the-cross #the-trinity

His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming, Mr. Frodo!' He ran forward to the climbing path, and over it. At once the road lurned left and plunged steeply down. Sam had crossed into Mordor. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#j-r-r-tolkien #sam #the-lord-of-the-rings #the-return-of-the-king #love

The time we spend caring about people and loving them could have also been used for manipulating and seducing. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#manipulation #seduction #love

Enjoy your dreams and empower others to live theirs. ↗

— Joseph Ash

#inspirational-quotes #motivational-inspirational #self-improvement #art

Certainly one of the more common experiences in the jazz field is discovering someone new. Improvising musicians are capable of being musical travelers, voyagers. We want to join in on whatever we hear. There is a freedom to wander the musical landscape. ↗

— Gary Burton

#capable #certainly #common #discovering #experiences