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Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more. ↗

— Marcia Vaughan

#irena #kindness #love #sendler #love

Because way back before you were even born there was this girl you see. And I fell in love with her. It was something that I wanted-love-not because it was expected of me, but because I found it out my self-that happiness of wanting to be with that other person. ↗

— Marianne Wiggins

#love

But it's love that does us in. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#love

You Know love when you see it, hear it, and feel it." ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#poetry #poetry-quotes #romance #love

You say she loves him? No one but a coward would be defrauded of the woman he loved and who loved him. Ah, if I had once felt Madeleine's hand tremble in mine, if her rosy lips had pressed a kiss upon my brow, the whole world could not take her from me. ↗

— Émile Gaboriau

#love

My daddy. . . . . used to say, ‘Honey, find something you love to do and then figure out a way to get paid for it.’ He understood that where your true passion is, there your joy is also. And a joyful life is a truly successful life. Perhaps not by the world’s standards, but whose life is it anyway? ↗

— Kathy Lee Gifford

#work #love

Inside the snow globe on my father's desk, there was a penguin wearing a red-and-white-stripped scarf. When I was little my father would pull me into his lap and reach for the snow globe. He would turn it over, letting all the snow collect on the top, then quickly invert it. The two of us watched the snow fall gently around the penguin. The penguin was alone in there, I thought, and I worried for him. When I told my father this, he said, 'Don't worry, Susie; he has a nice life. He's trapped in a perfect world. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#novel #quote #the-lovely-bones #love

We read to know what are not love ↗

— C.S. Lewis

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Endeavor for greatness, venture for the sake of the heart. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#greatness #heart #love #nadege #richards

Taped on the wall was a hand-drawn picture- a stick figure with a bow on the head holding a litterbag. ↗

— Suzanne Crowley

#love #touching #love