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Love must face reality If it is to survive ↗

— Loretta Livingstone

#love #reality #reality-of-life #life

You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#identity #the-love-of-the-last-tycoon #love

God is love, and the one who abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him. ↗

— Anonymous

#love #spirituality #love

Old pond — frogs jumped in — sound of water ↗

— Matsuo Bashō

#poetry-love-spirituality #love

At its strongest and wildest and most authentic, love is a demon. It is a religion, a high-risk adventure, an act of heroism. Love is ecstasy and injury, transcendence and danger, altruism and excess. In many ways, it is a divine madness. ↗

— Cristina Nehring

#divine-madness #excess #love #passion #risk

Andy: Andrew Makepeace Ladd, the Third, accepts with pleasure the kind invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Channing Gardner for a birthday party in honor of their daughter Melissa on April 19th, 1937 at half past three o'clock. Melissa: Dear Andy: Thank you for the birthday present. I have a lot of Oz books, but not 'The Lost Princess of Oz.' What made you give me that one? Sincerely yours, Melissa. Andy: I'm answering your letter about the book. When you came into second grade with that stuck-up nurse, you looked like a lost princess. Melissa: I don't believe what you wrote. I think my mother told your mother to get that book. I like the pictures more than the words. Now let's stop writing letters. ↗

— A.R. Gurney

#birthday-party #letter-writing #princess #wizard-of-oz #love

That made her pause, almost made her want to laugh. She pushed her hair from her face. "God, we're fucked up, aren't we?" His tight features loosened a little. "Yeah, I've been trying to get over it most of my life. I guess I'd had myself talked into thinking I had." "Me, too. I'm sorry," she told him, her shoulders relaxing. "I didn't need to get so pissed off." He cracked a grin, "You did, though, didn't you? I kind of liked seeing you like that. All that fire. ↗

— Eve Berlin

#childhood-memories #love

Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon son of John, do you love me more than these other people?" He said to him, "Yes, Lord; you know that I love you." Jesus said to him, "Feed my lambs. ↗

— Anonymous

#jesus-christ #religion #love

A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need. ↗

— Toni Sorenson

#help #judgment #love #religion #service

Like it or not, we are trendsetters. Just as every fashion model ever to strut the runway, we affect the minds of others by what we wear. With usch power it's vital to question ourselves: 'Am I an example of Christ-centeredness? Or have I just gotten comfortable in the "Christian routine" and forgotten why I've chosen to live this way? ↗

— Hannah Farver

#influence #modesty #love