#su

War had the effect of encouraging people to try to stay alive. Poverty, too. Survival was simply too hard-won to be given up lightly. ↗

— Aminatta Forna

#survival #war #love

Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering. ↗

— Pope Benedict XVI

#love #suffering #truth #love

True Love is divine gift. It comes only from God himself ↗

— Olivia Par

#love

LOVE IT! :) Yeah. They've been doing BIG billboards of this in the gayborhoods in NYC, LA and SanFran. Although I wouldn't fuck a Scientologist on a dare. 8| ↗

— Damon Suede

#manhunt-net #tom-cruise #love

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you...and protect me, for today I could betray you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#jesus #love #love

I am the soul in limbo. ↗

— André Breton

#nadja #soul #surrealism #art

Do you know the best way to get your body heat back?" Ethan asked her as he looked her in the eyes and stroked her glossy brown hair. “The way to warm up is to lie next to another person. Naked. ↗

— Amanda Bretz

#romance-novel #survival #love

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#love #sufis #truth #way #wisdom

Did You wrap yourself inside the unexpected so we might know that Love would go that far? ↗

— Francesca Battistelli

#incarnation #jesus #love

Rivera rubbed his temples. "Satan told you to do it?" he said wearily. "No." "Elvis?" "I told you, it's supernatural. ↗

— Christopher Moore

#elvis #supernatural #love