They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin Franklin
When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.
-Winston Churchill
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you
took, but how many moments took your breath away
♥♥ - shing xiong
A great attitude becomes a great day which becomes a great
month which becomes a great year which becomes a great life.
♥♥ — Mandy Hale
It’s kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don’t get
on the ride, you won’t experience the adventure.
♥♥ — Mariah Carey
In this life, people will love you and people will hate you
and none of that will anything to do with you.
♥♥ — Abraham
Hicks
You can get more of what you want with a kind word and a gun
than you can with just a kind word.
-Al Capone
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can
do for you; ask what you can do for your country.
-John F. Kennedy
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change
the subject.
-Winston Churchill
All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power,
but the absence of power.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when
the tiger wants to murder him, it's called ferocity.
-George Bernard Shaw
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
-Mark Twain
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age
eighteen.
-Albert Einstein
All government -- indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment,
every virtue and every prudent act -- is founded on compromise and barter.
-Edmund Burke
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An
unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit
himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
-Bert Leston Taylor
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny, but in
ourselves.
-William Shakespeare
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about
something then you have the time to do something about it.
-Anthony J. D'Angelo
Trouble is part of your life -- if you don't share it, you
don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
-Dinah Shore
When the world has once begun to use us ill, it afterwards
continues the same treatment with less scruple or ceremony, as men do to a
whore.
-Jonathan Swift
If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man
alive.
-Samuel Goldwyn
I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are
paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.
-Voltaire
A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
-Mark Twain
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind.
If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
-Arthur Somers Roche
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion
of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Love is the answer. But while you're waiting for the answer,
sex brings up some pretty good questions.
-Woody Allen
My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife,
you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
-Socrates
The heart has its reasons that reason knows nothing of.
Blaise Pascal
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than
the hunger for bread.
-Mother Teresa
There is only one happiness in life: to love and be loved.
-George Sand
When two people are under the influence of the most violent,
most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required
to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting
condition continuously until death do them part.
-George Bernard Shaw
And in today already walks tomorrow. ~Samuel Taylor
Coleridge
The past can't see you, but the future is listening. ~Terri
Guillemets
8 Powerful Ways to Stop Wasting Your Life
When you feel like you are wasting your life, it’s a sure
sign you should change your path. It’s easy to get stuck in a job you hate,
because you need those money to pay off your debts or simply raise a family.
You are tired of hanging out with people who make you feel miserable. You are
tired of trying to save your unhealthy relationship. You have to do many things
you don’t want to do because you think it’s your responsibility. If any of
these sounds familiar to you, stop for a minute. Do you really have time to waste
your life? Unfortunately, we can’t live forever, which is why it’s so important
to stop wasting your life right now. 1. End any unhealthy relationship Do you
have a toxic friend? Are you in an abusive relationship? End any unhealthy
relationship for good and don’t waste your time on people who make you feel bad
about yourself. Don’t let them ruin your life and don’t try to ruin their
lives. On this matter, I really love this powerful quote by Matareva Pearl:
“Don’t waste your time on revenge. Those who hurt you will eventually face
their own karma.” Let go of toxic people today to feel and live happier
tomorrow.
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I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. ~Albert
Einstein
Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in
the future. ~Ruth Benedict
The future is called "perhaps," which is the only
possible thing to call the future. And the only important thing is not to allow
that to scare you. ~Tennessee Williams, Orpheus Descending, 1957
We should all be concerned about the future because we will
have to spend the rest of our lives there. ~Charles F. Kettering
Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God
allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!
Criss Jami, Killosophy
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of
happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine.
If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists.
Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It
makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song.
Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
It's very dramatic when two people come together to work
something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what
is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together
and finally respect each other.
Fred Rogers, The World According to Mister Rogers: Important
Things to Remember
“In religion and politics people’s beliefs and convictions
are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from
authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have
taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them
were not worth a brass farthing.”
― Mark Twain
“I think you have
every right to cherry-pick when it comes to moving your spirit and finding
peace in God. You take whatever works from wherever you can find it, and you
keep moving toward the light.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Unless there is a
Good Friday in your life, there can be no Easter Sunday.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
“Hearing nuns'
confessions is like being stoned to death with popcorn.”
― Fulton J. Sheen
“One good
schoolmaster is of more use than a hundred priests.”
― Thomas Paine
“We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not
enough to make us love.”
― David Mitchell,
“It turned out I was
pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science
class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just
believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion
class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and
reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes.”
― George Carlin,
“I don't try to
imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the
world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein
“I don't try to
imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the
world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.”
― Albert Einstein
“I want to write a
book so long that it will take the average person their whole life to read. It
will be exactly the same length as the Bible.”
― Jarod Kintz
“For those who
believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is
possible.”
― Stuart Chase
“For those who
believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is
possible.”
― Stuart Chase
“Your daily life is
your temple and your religion.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“Here's an easy way
to figure out if you're in a cult: If you're wondering whether you're in a
cult, the answer is yes.”
― Stephen Colbert,
“Gradually it was
disclosed to me that the line separating good and evil passes not through
states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right
through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts.
Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by
evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained. And even in the best of all
hearts, there remains ... an unuprooted small corner of evil.
Since then I have come to understand the truth of all the
religions of the world: They struggle with the evil inside a human being
(inside every human being). It is impossible to expel evil from the world in
its entirety, but it is possible to constrict it within each person.”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“One man's theology
is another man's belly laugh.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“One man's theology
is another man's belly laugh.”
― Robert A. Heinlein
“An atheist believes
that a hospital
should be built instead of a church.
An atheist believes that deed must
be done instead of prayer said.
An atheist strives for involvement in life
and not escape into death.
He wants disease conquered,
poverty vanished, war eliminated.”
― Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I think, well, I've
had a shit of a life, all things considered. It wasn't fair. Everyone I've ever
loved is dead, and my leg hurts all the bloody time... But I think, any God
that can do sunsets like that, a different one every night... 'Strewth, well,
you've got to respect the old bastard, haven't you?”
― Neil Gaiman,
“I don't pray because it doesn't work. Prayer doesn't fix
anything. Bad things happen anyway.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“The Bible tells us
to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass
murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior
of Western Civilization.”
― Robert Anton Wilson
“Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and
a Jew.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter
people and hallelujah is our song.”
― Pope John Paul II
“Now, the invention of the scientific method and science is,
I'm sure we'll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most
powerful framework for thinking and investigating and understanding and
challenging the world around us that there is, and that it rests on the premise
that any idea is there to be attacked and if it withstands the attack then it
lives to fight another day and if it doesn't withstand the attack then down it
goes. Religion doesn't seem to work like that; it has certain ideas at the heart
of it which we call sacred or holy or whatever. That's an idea we're so
familiar with, whether we subscribe to it or not, that it's kind of odd to
think what it actually means, because really what it means is 'Here is an idea
or a notion that you're not allowed to say anything bad about; you're just not.
Why not? - because you're not!”
― Douglas Adams
“Aim at Heaven and
you will get Earth 'thrown in': aim at Earth and you will get neither.”
― C.S. Lewis,
“There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a
mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and
their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke
with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting
splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must
play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest
kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other
seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption.”
― C.S. Lewis
“Words do not express
thoughts very well; every thing immediately becomes a little different, a
little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right
that what is of value and wisdom of one man seems nonsense to another.”
― Gautama Buddha
“Many religions now
come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous
merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift,
competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how
barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that
people could not refuse.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of
faith.”
― Paul Tillich
“...legitimate powers of government reach actions only,
& not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the
whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law
respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,'
thus building a wall of separation between Church & State. Adhering to this
expression of the supreme will of the nation in behalf of the rights of
conscience, I shall see with sincere satisfaction the progress of those
sentiments which tend to restore to man all his natural rights, convinced he
has no natural right in opposition to his social duties.”
― Thomas Jefferson
“A celibate clergy is
an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity
toward fanaticism.”
― Carl Sagan
“Peace is present
right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath
we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The
question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake,
alive in the present moment.”
― ThÃch Nhất Hạnh
“It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and
sisters of a different faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason
will carry them - and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not
atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for awhile.
We must all pass through the garden of Gethsemane. If Christ played with doubt,
so must we. If Christ spent an anguished night in prayer, if He burst out from
the Cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" then surely we
are also permitted doubt. But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy
of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.”
― Yann Martel
“But very quickly
they all became grave again: for, as you know, there is a kind of happiness and
wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.”
― C.S. Lewis,
“It is not about
doing what we feel like. It is about doing what God says.”
― Joyce Meyer
“I find the whole
business of religion profoundly interesting. But it does mystify me that
otherwise intelligent people take it seriously.”
― Douglas Adams
“This is what I
believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my known self will
never be more than a little clearing in the forest. That gods, strange gods,
come forth from the forest into the clearing of my known self, and then go
back. That I must have the courage to let them come and go. That I will never
let mankind put anything over me, but that I will try always to recognize and
submit to the gods in me and the gods in other men and women. There is my
creed.”
― D.H. Lawrence
“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even
crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and
make fun of it.”
― Thomas Carlyle
“There was a time
when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages.”
― Ruth Hurmence Green
“Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“It's so hard to
believe in anything anymore. I mean, it's like, religion, you really can't take
it seriously, because it seems so mythological, it seems so arbitrary...but, on
the other hand, science is just pure empiricism, and by virtue of its method,
it excludes metaphysics. I guess I wouldn't believe in anything anymore if it
weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch.”
― Steve Martin
“Let my heart be
broken by the things that break the heart of God.”
― Bob Pierce
“There is something
pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt
everything.”
― George Gordon Byron
“The most beautiful
thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and
science. He to whom the emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to
wonder and stand wrapped in awe, is as good as dead —his eyes are closed. The
insight into the mystery of life, coupled though it be with fear, has also
given rise to religion. To know what is impenetrable to us really exists,
manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our
dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms—this
knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.”
― Albert Einstein
“Grace is the
pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and
power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God.”
― John Piper
“I like a cook who
smiles out loud when he tastes his own work.
Let God worry about your modesty; I want to see your
enthusiasm.”
― Robert Farrar Capon
“Happiness is the
object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue
the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness,
holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith Jr.
“The Savage
interrupted him. "But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?"
"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's
trousers with zippers," said the Controller sarcastically. "You
remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy
as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed
anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to
believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad
reasons–that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been
conditioned to.”
― Aldous Huxley
“[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes
encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who
looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said
that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature
has left your company.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert
“Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous;
those in philosophy only ridiculous.”
― David Hume,
“But, first,
remember, remember, remember the signs. Say them to yourself when you wake in
the morning and when you lie down at night, and when you wake in the middle of
the night. And whatever strange things may happen to you, let nothing turn your
mind from following the signs. And secondly, I give you a warning. Here on the
mountain I have spoken to you clearly: I will not often do so down in Narnia.
Here on the mountain, the air is clear and your mind is clear; as you drop down
into Narnia, the air will thicken. Take great care that it does not confuse
your mind. And the signs which you have learned here will not look at all as
you expect them to look, when you meet them there. That is why it is so
important to know them by heart and pay no attention to appearances. Remember
the signs and believe the signs. Nothing else matters.”
― C.S. Lewis,
“You will face your
greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“To live by grace
means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In
admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means.”
― Brennan Manning
“The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark
room, especially if there is no cat.”
― Confucius
Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
-Khalil Gibran
You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep
your curiosity fresh.
-John Singer Sargent
To love another person is to see the face of God.
-Victor Hugo
Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.
-Oscar Wilde
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd
best teach it to dance.
-George Bernard Shaw
“Beauty is the only human aspect which cannot be captured on
any canvas howsoever hard an artist tries. At the most, the undaunted artist
can replicate the beauty on paper but what is a replica in comparison to the
original! The humbling resemblance can only be respected, not truly adored.
Beauty cannot be imprisoned in the lens of a camera. The
images of beauty are a moment of its essence. Beauty cannot be displayed to
evoke pleasure for all on a cinema screen. Those are just its imprints, mere
illusions of its existence. Beauty cannot be described by words; it cannot be
written or read about. There are no suitable words in all the languages of the
world, ancient or modern to hold it between a paper and a pen or a script and
an eye. Beauty can only be experienced from far, its delightful aroma can only
be tasted through one’s eyes and its pleasurable sight can only be felt from
the soul.
Beauty can only be best described at its origin through a
befuddling silence, the kind that leaves one almost on the verge of a
pleasurable death, just because one chooses beauty over life. There is nothing
in this world to hold something so pure, so divine except a loving heart. And
it is the only manner through which love recognises love; the language of love
has no alphabet, no words.”
― Faraaz Kazi
“When I say ‘I love
you’ I don’t mean that I love what being with you does for my career, or I love
how often you’re willing to shag. I mean I love you. I love making you laugh,
and seeing how you react to things, and getting to know the little things about
you. I love who I am with you, and I’m trusting you not to hurt me.”
― Christina Lauren
“It’s too bad if a
heart lacks fire,
and is deprived of the light
of a heart ablaze.
The day on which you are
without passionate love
is the most wasted day of your life.”
― Omar Khayyam
“And you're right, I
do love you Eden. I will follow you into eternity, or until after this weekend
when we all die gruesome, painful deaths... But with every breath I have left,
I will use it to love you. Because, Eden, I want this... You; I want you more
than life, more than anything. There was a time when I didn't think I was
strong enough to face you again, or what is between us. I was too afraid of the
heartache, of being shattered again. But now, it doesn't matter, nothing
matters except you. I will take an eternity of hardship, of war or fighting my
father, or anything, just to hold your love again. You are everything to me, my
sun, my moon, the air I breathe. Nothing exists accept you. I love you.”
― Rachel Higginson
“I feel a horror for
exaggerated love or friendship. It's just too well demonstrated to me that when
the moment comes that one asks something, or has need of something, the
responce is not worth a biscuit.”
― Brian Thompson
“I found that as I
flipped the days on the calendar, the worries I had about our relationship had
began to diminish.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“Let love find you.
Don’t go looking for it. The best way to attract a mate is to post an ad on
Craigslist titled, “Have lube, will travel.”
― Jarod Kintz
“Do not try to
explain feelings. Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a
gift from God.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Sonnet 29
When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes,
I all alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble deaf heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate,
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess'd,
Desiring this man's art and that man's scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thoughts myself almost despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven's gate;
For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings
That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
― William Shakespeare
“Be you wise and
never sad,
You will get your lovely lad.
Never serious be, nor true,
And your wish will come to you--
And if that makes you happy, kid,
You'll be the first it ever did.”
― Dorothy Parker
“Love weaves itself
from hundreds of threads.”
― David Levithan
“And by golly, love
sure was a battlefield. Benatar was right about that.”
― Charlaine Harris
“It's delicious to
have people adore you, but it's exhausting, too. Particularly when your own
feelings don't match theirs.”
― Tasha Alexander
“Ain't all buttons
and charts, little albatross. Know what the first rule of flying is? Well I
s'pose you do, since you already know what I'm 'bout to say.
I do. But I like to hear you say it.
Love. Can know all the math in the 'verse but take a boat in
the air that you don't love? She'll shake you off just as sure as a turn in the
worlds. Love keeps her in the air when she oughta fall down...tell you she's
hurtin' 'fore she keens...makes her a home.”
― Joss Whedon
“I understand why she
did all those things, but that doesn't mean we aren't still broken.”
― Veronica Roth
“She realized all at
once the deeper thing that bothered her, the thing that made him not just
irritating but intolerable: how he kept loving her blindly when she deserved it
so little. ”
― Ann Brashares
“Mother, who has an
absolute belief that it is not the cards that one is dealt in life, it is how
one plays them, is, by far, the highest card I was dealt.”
― Kay Redfield Jamison
“For she had eyes and
chose me.”
― William Shakespeare
“It's not that kind
of love. It's the real kind. The unconditional kind. The nonjudgemental kind.
Not the physical kind. I love you as a fellow soul who inhabits this earth. I
love you as a fellow immortal. I love you because I finally understand what
made you the way you are. And if I could change it, I would. But I can't—so I
choose to love you instead. And my hope is that my acceptance of you will spur
you to do something good too, but if not—" I shrug. "At least I can
say I tried.”
― Alyson Noel
“Love makes you see a
place differently, just as you hold differently an object that belongs to
someone you love. If you know one landscape well, you will look at all other
landscapes differently. And if you learn to love one place, sometimes you can
also learn to love another.”
― Anne Michaels
“Three years? That's
a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.”
― Karen Kingsbury
“In those days, we
finally chose to walk like giants and hold the world in arms grown strong with
love
And there may be many things we forget in the days to come,
But this will not be one of them.”
― Brian Andreas
“Don't you know that
love isn't just going to bed? Love isn't an act, it's a whole life. It's
staying with her now because she needs you; it's knowing you and she will still
care about each other when sex and daydreams, fights and futures -- when all
that's on the shelf and done with. Love -- why, I'll tell you what love is:
it's you at seventy-five and her at seventy-one, each of you listening for the
other's step in the next room, each afraid that a sudden silence, a sudden cry,
could mean a lifetime's talk is over.”
― Brian Moore
“I pause a second. He
doesn't look at me the way Will, Christina, and Al sometimes do - like I am too
small and too weak to be of any use, and they pity me for it.”
― Veronica Roth
“...lies can sound awfully pretty when a girl is in love with
the person telling them.”
― Gabrielle Zevin
“Take my hand and
we'll make it - I swear”
― Jon Bon Jovi
“Every now and then, I’d meet a guy and think that we were
getting along great, and suddenly I’d stop hearing from him. Not only did he
stop calling, but if I happened to bump into him sometime later he always acted
like I had the plague. I didn’t understand it. I still don’t. And it bothered
me. It hurt me. With time, it got harder and harder to keep blaming the guys,
and I eventually came to the conclusion that there was something wrong with me.
That maybe I was simply meant to live my life alone.”
― Nicholas Sparks
“It matters not who
you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it
matters only that you love”
― John Lennon
“My love may be invisible, but that doesn’t mean you can’t
taste it. (It tastes like a sonic boom, only not as bitter).”
― Jarod Kintz
“In the war room,
love? What if someone comes in?”
I stood and removed his shirt. “Then they’ll have a good
story to tell.”
“Good?” He adopted the pretense of being offended.
“Prove me wrong.”
― Maria V. Snyder
“Love is like quicksand; once you're in it's difficult to
get out.”
― C.B. Smith
“A bond between souls
is ancient - older than the planet.”
― Dianna Hardy
“Maybe I'll be like
that man in "The Hanging Tree'. Still waiting for an answer.”
― Suzanne Collins
“Love is the only
freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of
humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“In the silence, she
felt the past and the present shift and mix, but that was a mirage. There was
no way to comfort the lost boy he'd been back then.
But she had the grown male.
She had him right in her arms, and for a brief moment of
whimsy, she imagined that she was never, ever going to let him go.”
― J.R. Ward
“He's looking at the wall and at the floor and at the
bedsheets and at the way his knuckles look when he clenches his fist but no not
at me he won't look at me and his next words are so, so soft.
"Because they're dead, love. They're all dead.”
― Tahereh Mafi
“When you meet someone
so different from yourself, in a good way, you don't even have to kiss to have
fireworks go off. Its like fireworks in your heart all the time.”
― Lisa Schroeder
“Doubt thou the stars
are fire
Doubt thou the sun doth move
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love”
― William Shakespeare
“You were born
together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in
your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it
rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup
but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the
same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be
alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same
music.”
― Kahlil Gibran
“I was born when you
kissed me. I died when you left me. I lived a few weeks while you loved me.”
― Dorothy B. Hughes
“Tereza knew what
happens during the moment love is born: the woman cannot resist the voice calling
forth her terrified soul; the man cannot resist the woman whose soul thus
responds to his voice.”
― Milan Kundera
“Our time together
feels like a storm, like wild wind and rain, like something too big to handle
but too powerful to escape. It blows around me and tangles my hair, leaves
water on my face, makes me know that I am alive, alive, alive. There are
moments of calm and pause as there are in every storm, and moments when our
words fork lightening, at least for each other.”
― Ally Condie
“Kakabog ang dibdib
mo, kikiligin ang kalamnan mo at kikirot ang puso mo. Kabog, kilig, kirot.
Kapag naramdaman mo ang tatlong K, umiibig ka.”
― Ricky Lee
“Love is not enough.
It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It
is much too pliable, to yielding.”
― Bette Davis
“There is no religion
without love,
and people may talk as much as
they like about their religion, but
if it does not teach them to be good
and kind to man and beast,
it is all a sham.”
― Anna Sewell
“I vow I am, and
always will be, constant and faithful in my love for you, Anais. Nothing you or
anyone else does shall alter these feelings. I am forever loving, forever
waiting, forever yearning...forever yours.”
― Charlotte Featherstone
“If he can't handle
you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means
seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person's
soul.”
― Shannon L. Alder
“Just because love
don't look the way you think it should, don't mean you don't have it.”
― Leslye Walton
“In my crazy world,
above all others...you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the
only one...who was the most beautiful.... This is the unspoken truth.”
― Kaori Yuki
“And here, finally here in this place, in these
circumstances, I will really have to kill him. And Snow will win. Hot, bitter
hatred courses through me. Snow has won too much already today. It's a long
shot, it's suicide maybe, but I do the only thing I can think of. I lean in and
kiss Peeta full on the mouth. His whole body starts shuddering, but I keep my
lips pressed to his until I have to come up for air. My hands slide up his
wrists to clasp his. "Don't let him take you from me." Peeta's
panting hard as he fights the nightmares raging in his head. "No. I don't
want to..." I clench his hands to the point of pain. "Stay with
me." His pupils contract to pinpoints, dilate again rapidly, and then
return to something resembling normalcy. "Always," he murmurs.”
― Suzanne Collins
“If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good
ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook
something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can
salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all
the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing.
Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.”
― John Irving
“Love has no
limitations. It cannot be measured. It has no boundaries. Although many have
tried, love is indefinable.”
― Steve Maraboli
