#ten

I left the library. Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dust. People hurried past me. and everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them. ↗

— Nicole Krauss

#forgotten #hollow #loneliness #love

The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the ‘Living Infinite... ↗

— Jules Verne

#exploration #infinite #journey #meditation #spirituality

I don't have to look for love, because I am love. ↗

— Euphoria Godsent

#completeness #confidence #empowerment #euphoria-godsent #fulfillment

This is what it means to be loved... when someone wants to touch you, to be tender... ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#love #tenderness #the-lake #touch #love

I don't need to see the trail to know you're at the end of it. My grandfather's compass may not work, but mine is still true. ↗

— Diana Peterfreund

#jane-austen #love #persuasion #true-love #love

You don't blast a heart open," she said. "You coax and nurture it open, like the sun does to a rose. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#love #tenderness #love

I hate her." Merlin laughed, tossing the stick down. "Not so. You have forgotten how to love. That's a different sorrow. ↗

— Catherine Fisher

#forgotten #hate #merlin #sorrow #love

Popular culture is a place where pity is called compassion, flattery is called love, propaganda is called knowledge, tension is called peace, gossip is called news, and auto-tune is called singing. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bandwagon #compassion #culture #fads #flattery

And the thing is, we can’t fail. We’ve already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can’t go wrong, babe. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#listen #love #success #love

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help? ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#humility #penitence #righteousness #sovereignty #love