#ship

Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just enough to live with. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#hardship #money

It’s a little early in our relationship for us to be ‘surmounting,’ but, hey, I’m game if you are. I’ll even let you be on top.” He looked directly at me, a coy smile playing on his lips. ↗

— Stacey Marie Brown

#humor #paranormal-romance #quotes #stacey-marie-brown #relationship

Revolting’ was the last word I ever spoke as someone who’d never kissed a girl. ↗

— David Mitchell

#relationships #relationship

I was going for the devious smile that would suddenly light up his face each time he'd read my mind, when all I really wanted was skin, just skin. ↗

— André Aciman

#relationship

All relationships are tough. Just like with music, sometimes you have harmony and other times you have cacophony. I don't have to tell you that. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#relationships #music

When both our inner man and woman takes responsibility for themselves and lives their own truth, a joy and love begins to flow naturally between them. Healing means to develop the inner man and woman so that love can flow between them. Healing is to learn to love both our inner man and woman. It is to learn to live the truth of both the inner man and woman. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#female #healing #inner-man-and-woman #joy #love

I took your name when I took those vows I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. ↗

— The Band Perry

#music-lyrics #relationships #music

I used to love you. But now, I loved you even more. ↗

— Kate Racho

#relationships #love

Christians—who have no patience with Darwinistic materialism—often sound as progressive as the most ardent evolutionist. They look for “new” theologies, “new” ways of worship, and “new” music, being quite willing to toss out their entire “old-fashioned” Christian heritage. ↗

— Gene Edward Veith

#novelty #worship #music

The Christian life is not about pleasing God the finger-shaker and judge. It is not about believing now or being good now for the sake of heaven later. It is about entering a relationship in the present that begins to change everything now. Spirituality is about this process: the opening of the heart to the God who is already here. ↗

— Marcus J. Borg

#god #life #relationship #spirituality #change