#v

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave. ↗

— Na

#magical-thinking #past #present #love

The spirit, my love, is stronger than laughter, stronger than the hungry panting of reckless lions that paw and shuffle underneath the canopy of bowed trees, stronger than the pace of a dying heart, that awaits to be pumped to life by episodes mothered by time, by hands of mankind, by slivers of hope hidden in the common mind. ↗

— V.S. Atbay

#spiritual-growth #love

If all else fails, we then factor (fall) into our equation. And pray hard, someone factors (catching us) into theirs. ↗

— Noor Iskandar

#hope #love #prayer #love

I remember reading somewhere that you have to learn to love yourself before you can love someone else. But I don't think it's true. I think you have to learn to forget yourself before you can love someone else. At least I seem to forget about myself when I'm with you. ↗

— Ryan Winfield

#love

I was the man who never lied Never lied until today But I just couldn't break your heart Like you did mine yesterday ↗

— Maroon

#heart-break #love #the-man-who-never-lied #love

Beloved, my ears listen for you, my lips thirst for you, my eyes search for you, and darkness brings light, but light brings truth to be fed by your sight. And when the winds of Persia blew, for a moment in time, something awakened in my fertile mind; an awareness boldly standing in my view, that my heart has always, and only, bled for you. ↗

— V.S. Atbay - Epiphany A Collection of Poems

#poetry #romance #spiritual #love

She slowly rolled the book over in her hands, memorizing the cover as she said goodbye. She flipped through the pages, feeling the air on her face and breathing in the smell of the paper. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#love

To him, a stilted geometric love of arrangement was “system,” and indefatigable and feverish interest in the pettiest facets of day-to-day bureaucracy was “industry”, indecision when right was “caution”, and blind stubbornness when wrong, “determination. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#petty #love

Don't be afraid. You are never really alone. Just be yourself. You don't ever have to pretend you are someone else. If you try to do that, then you don't have anything to give the world. Accept and give your gifts with love. ↗

— Jay Woodman

#afraid #alone #gifts #give #love

This isn't goodbye, okay. There are no goodbyes... not between us. ↗

— S.C. Stephens

#heartache #love #missing-you #love