#tie

In between your failure-tree And your triumph-tree, The tree that is growing Is known as your patience-tree. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#patience #inner-peace

Everything that ever happened to me that was important happened in the desert. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#love #michael-ondaatje #novels #romance #the-english-patient

The more I protested about this ambiguity, the more Joanna pointed out to me that it was both a terrible and wonderful part of life: terrible because you can't count on anything for sure--like certain good health and no possibility of cancer; wonderful because no human being knows when another is going to die--no doctor can absolutely predict the outcome of a disease. The only thing that is certain is change. Joanna calls all of this 'delicious ambiguity.' 'Couldn't there be comfort and freedom in no one knowing the outcome of anything and all things being possible?' she asked. Was I convinced? Not completely. I still wanted to believe in magic thinking. But I was intrigued. ↗

— Gilda Radner

#honest #intriguing #possibilities #change

Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls and ships of war. ↗

— Aristophanes

#cities #foes #friends #high #learn

I went mad before he did, you killed everything in me. Kiss me,will you. Stop defending yourself. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#katharine #love #michael-ondaatje #novel #romance

Spend twenty years there and you ask yourself how there can still be strangers with so many familiar faces ... it's probably that cities generate strangers continuously ... ↗

— Frederik Peeters

#strangers #love

In love, all kinds of love, we wait. If I can't be your dawn, I will be your sunset! ↗

— Rossana Condoleo

#loving #loving-someone #patience-and-love #the-power-of-love #waiting-for-love

The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait! ↗

— Erwin W. Lutzer

#forgiveness

He took a step toward me and whispered in my ear "I really did love you." Leaving out the unsaid word; Once. "Me too." Once. ↗

— Katie McGarry

#love #pushing-the-limits #love

Now, whatever you do, don't say anything, because no one must know that Liberace is gay." "Excuse me?" I said. "I'm eight. I know he's gay. ↗

— Alison Arngrim

#humour #love