#wi

Everything's explained by the constant intervention of Allah. And whatever happens had to happen, and was decreed at the beginning of time, and there's no way of even imagining how anything could have been different from what it is. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#imagination

The happiest pillow on which you may rest your head is the knowledge of God's will. I cannot imagine a more miserable situation than consciously to be out of God's will. ↗

— R.T. Kendall

#imagination

You have the nicest window, you know? None of the others can even compete. It´s not flashy like the others, or bleary – your window gives of this nice, quiet light. ↗

— Banana Yoshimoto

#love #window #love

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#literature #literature-quotes #love #poems #poetry

Children needed love, a reliable source of comfort, and an adult willing to take responsibility for them. ↗

— Deborah Harkness

#wisdom #love

And so, from the first, we separated our pleasure. She lay on the rug and I lay at right angles to her so that only our lips might meet. Kissing in this way is the strangest of distractions. The greedy body that clamors for satisfaction is forced to content itself with a single sensation and, just as the blind hear more acutely and the deaf can feel the grass grow, so the mouth becomes the focus of love and all things pass through it and are re-defined. It is a sweet and precise torture. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#kiss #love #the-passion #love

I don't care what they say, we are only to love those who deserve our love and love them to the degree that they deserve it! You see, we are not God. Only God can love people undeserving without spoiling them. Us, on the other hand, can love someone so undeserving, and actually turn the person into someone so vile who is convinced that they were always entitled to every bit of it! Mamma mia! And what about giving? Yes, they all want us to give and expect nothing in return, they all have many scriptures to lay on our tables when it is they who are at the receiving end! But when the tables are turned and we are the ones at the receiving end, suddenly all the scriptures mean something else! And all the times they were on our end and we gave to them- suddenly are all forgotten! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#giving #guidance-in-love-and-giving #inspirational-wisdom #wisdom-in-giving #wisdom-in-love

Love is the great conqueror of lust. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#c-s-lewis-mere-christianity #love #true-love #love

I have flown and fallen, and I have swum deep and drowned, but there should be more to love than "I survived it. ↗

— Lisa Mantchev

#falling-in-love #love #survived #swim #love

Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol." "No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----" "After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol. ↗

— William Faulkner

#dramatic-moment #go-down-moses #william-faulkner #home