#wi

The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return - that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. ↗

— Dodie Smith

#love #wisdom #youth #love

When prayer, rituals and ascetic life are just a means of self-indulgence, they are harmful rather than beneficial. This is quite obvious to people nowadays, when it is widely recognised that fixations are not the same as valuable and laudable observances. One should not pray if that prayer is vanity; rituals are wrong when they provide lower satisfactions, like emotional stimulus instead of enlightenment; he or she should not be an ascetic who is only enjoying it. ↗

— Idries Shah

#love #sufis #truth #way #wisdom

It is my belief that love dies from overuse, and the heart dies from a lack of interest in life without it. ↗

— Abigail Brown

#love #the-heart #wisdom #life

Oh, well, she decided as her eyes began to close, it is better to love foolishly than to hate bitterly. I hope I am wiser than I was and more kind. ↗

— Carla Kelly

#love #wisdom #love

Flying, with your love, shining, with your love, riding, with your love. I feel like I'm on top of the world with your love. ↗

— Cher Lloyd

#love #riding #shining #top #with

The first miracle Jesus performed was instant winemaking. No wonder people loved Him! He probably received a bunch of wedding invitations after that one. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#jesus #spirituality #wine #love

What is blood but the wine of life? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#death #essence #life #wine #death

She loved him, and she was going to do everything she could to get him back. She hadn’t come this far just to walk away. He was the love of her life, dammit. The man she wanted to marry. The world had reversed its orbit to bring them back together, for Pete’s sake, and she wasn’t going down without a fight. Fate could only do so much; the rest was up to her. ↗

— Andrea Lochen

#freewill #love #repeat #year #life

Prefiero, señor, obrar bien y fracasar, antes que triunfar con malas artes. Palabras de Neoptólemo a Odiseo, en la tragedia griega Filoctetes. ↗

— Sophocles

#art

Ah Life, Thou art a false truth! ↗

— Raheel Farooq

#paradox #truth #wisdom #art