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The basic dynamics of conversion are summed up for me in the words LEAVE-ARRIVE, END-BEGIN, SHED-EMERGE. These are the tensions of conversion and spiritual awakening. ↗

— Sue Monk Kidd

#love

Mind of a loving heart is the fountain of knowledge. ↗

— Toba Beta

#knowledge #love #mind #love

Pedro of Portugal's rapt and bizarre declaration of love, in 1356, for the embalmed corpse of his murdered wife, Inez de Castro, who swayed beside him on his travels, leather-brown and skeletal, crowned with lace and gold circlet, hung about with chains of diamonds and pearls, her bone-fingers fantastically ringed. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#ines-de-castro #love #pedro-of-portugal #possession #love

Love. But the pure kind of love. I don't think that comes very often. Most of us are ordinary. If we do anything great, it's only so we'll be loved ourselves. Maybey just for ten minutes. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#love

The time you've got me running. The time, you've got me tired. Well I've got more for the world than this.And I've got love that I need to give. ↗

— Tegan Quin

#if-it-was-you #love-that-i-need-to-give #sara-quin #tegan-and-sara #tegan-quin

Because when something happens, he’s the person I want to tell. The most basic indicator of love. ↗

— David Levithan

#love

Adoro ver os barcos no rio Hudson, mas é muito diferente de estar num que balança e galga as ondas. Admira-me que a viagem seja tão agitada, porque do cais os barcos parecem deslizar sobre a água. Não se passa o mesmo com o amor? Parece tão simples e fácil à distância – mas quando estamos nele, é uma experiência diferente. Sentimos cada solavanco e perguntamos que onda nos irá derrubar, se iremos sobreviver ou afogar-nos na água traiçoeira, se nos safaremos ou se nos iremos virar? ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#love #love

Morality can provide at most only a severely limited and insufficient answer to the question of how a person should live. ↗

— Harry G. Frankfurt

#love #philosophy #love

Maybe he loves her. Maybe he wishes to have her forever, maybe he wishes that she could be his bride. Even then he might lose much to be with her-his properties, his position. But next to his love for her, what meaning do they have? He would be a fool to treasure dead gold more then a live heart. ↗

— John Speed

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I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#trousers #walking #love