#v

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint, begging, "Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery." This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated staue comes to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust, "My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket." Prayer is a realtionship; half the job is mine. If I want transformation, but can't even be bothered to articulate what, exactly, I'm ainming for, how will it ever occur? Half the benefit of prayer is in the asking itself, in the offering of a clearly posed and well-considered intention. If you don't have this, all your pleas and desires are boneless, floppy, inert; they swirl at your feet in a cold fog and never lift. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#life

He doesn't even like me. I let the thought roll around in my head. Anything I feel during that time gets shoved into the vault with the ten-foot-think door slamming as soon as it goes in, just in case something in there has any intention of crawling out. ↗

— Susan Ee

#love

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ... ↗

— John Geddes

#irrevocable #leftovers #love #true-love #wise-words

I don't cry because we've been separated by distance, and for a matter of years. Why? Because for as long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we're still together. ↗

— Donna Lynn Hope

#long-distance-love #long-distance-relationships #love

What would yo do for a piece of forever? What would you do to love more,feel more, and live more? ↗

— Shey Stahl

#love-story #young-adult-romance #love

No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don't know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won't let you down again. I won't hurt you. You don't have to be alone anymore. I need you. -Rush ↗

— Abbi Glines

#never-too-far #rush #love

Charlie?" he said, pulling mme back to face him. "I do love you." My breath caught on his words . . . words I'd waited so long to hear. ↗

— Kimberly Derting

#endings #ily #the-pledge #love

I want to tell you exactly how I feel but there isn’t a single goddamned word in the entire dictionary that can describe this point between liking you and loving you, but I need that word. I need it because I need you to hear me say it ↗

— Colleen Hoover

#love

Don't lose out on something that could be forever because you think the timing isn't right. Don't let fate decide. ↗

— Nicole Reed

#love

No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#growth #lonliness #love #struggle #support