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c89cf32
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We're not in this life just to work, we're in it to live.
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life-lesson
love
second-chance
workaholic
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Cecelia Ahern |
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6c9ab70
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But you are proof that you can think you know someone yet never really know them at all.
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down-syndrome
family
garden-leave
life
love
neighbour
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Cecelia Ahern |
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3e3c30f
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Just as when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.
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down-syndrome
family
garden-leave
life
love
neighbour
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Cecelia Ahern |
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08af27f
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I want you to be able to me, and as my love for you is so much of me (all of me, making me more than myself) then you must see that too.
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henry-and-cato
identity
iris-murdoch
love
seen
self
the-beloved
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Iris Murdoch |
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6abf427
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I loved laughing with him, loved that he could make me laugh.
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love
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James Patterson |
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411c167
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...we named her Dorothy Ann. Dolly, for short. I kissed her warily, fearful of the pain of loving her, love her, though love her I did; fearful lest she hurt me by dying.
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heartbreak
love
risk
trust
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Nancy E. Turner |
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c457903
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"Dad called it "enlightenment" but to me, it just felt lonely."
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family
fatherhood
loneliness
love
wisdom
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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fb8daad
|
"Time says "Let there be" every moment and instantly there is space and the radiance of each bright galaxy. And eyes beholding radiance. And the gnats' flickering dance.
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death
life
love
time
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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364cdb3
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Of course one never knows about other people's loves, and I would certainly never know about James's.
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love
loves
other-people
private
the-sea-the-sea
unknowable
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Iris Murdoch |
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124c204
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Certainly, all of us at Callahan's were heir to the tradition of the B-movie -- and the A-movie for that matter -- that any female who enters your life in a dramatic manner must be your fated love.
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destiny
dramatic-moment
entrance
love
love-at-first-sight
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Spider Robinson |
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de16327
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I cared about Ben, but I was never in love with him. I was in love with what it said about me that I had a boyfriend like Ben, and that's just different.
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christianity
girlfriend
growing-up
in-love
love
romance
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Nadia Bolz-Weber |
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012350f
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Whether we're forgiving our parents or someone else or ourselves, the laws of mind remain the same. As we love, we shall be released from pain and as we deny love, we shall remain in pain. Each of us have different fears and different manifestations of fear, but all of us are saved by the same technique: The call to God to save our lives by salvaging our minds. 'Lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For love is the kingdom and love is the glory and love is the power, forever and forever.
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love
personal-growth
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Marianne Williamson |
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fbbc19f
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- Doktore, az s'm inzhener, elektroinzhener. Tova e obrazovanieto mi. Inzhenerite otdeliat mnogo vreme za neshcho, koeto se naricha analiz na povredata. Nezavisimo ot tova dali proektirash, izpitvash, ili izgrazhdash... zashchoto, razbirate li, neshchata se chupiat. Te se povrezhdat, vzriviavat se, rukhvat, izgariat, ima natovarvane, iznosvane, schupvane. A p'k chovek iska da razbere na kakvo se d'lzhi povredata, tova e chast ot rabotata. Iskash da ustanovish kakvo ne e nared, za da go popravish. Mozhe bi navremeto s'm gledal na s'prugata si po tozi nachin. V nachaloto i dosta d'lgo vreme sled tova. Iskakh da razbera k'de sa se schupili neshchata. Mislekh si, che moga da ia popravia. Veche ne iskam da mislia za neia po tozi nachin, razbirate li, ne iskam da t'rsia razvaleniia kondenzator. Iskam prosto, iskam da kazha... Priemam ia i... - shchial da kazhe, che obichal baba, no mu se storilo, che tova bilo neshcho, s koeto edin m'zh ne biva da zanimava drug. - Tia e povredena, az s'm povreden. Vseki e povreden. Ako veche ne se izm'chva, tova mi stiga.
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love
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Michael Chabon |
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849e2d4
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Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why?
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love
relationship
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Frank Herbert |
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e8adfbd
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But love is strange, as they used to say at the Chameleon Club. Even those of us who value intelligence over appearance have discovered, to our chagrin, that a high IQ doesn't necessarily translate into kindness or even conscience.
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love
lovers
relationships
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Francine Prose |
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5a7fa78
|
Table talk and amorous talk are equally impossible to grasp; amorous talk is all pretty bubbles, table talk, hot air.
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love
table-talk
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Victor Hugo |
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905e339
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While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
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hope
jesus
love
pain
suffering
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Timothy J. Keller |
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d715fcc
|
Maybe real love is being able to ask, Do I have greens in my teeth?
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love
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Francine Prose |
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78ecc33
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He then, with great presence of mind, put a stop to any further recriminations by kissing her; and his indignant betrothed, apparently feeling that he was too deeply sunk in depravity to be reclaimable, abandoned (for the time being, at all events) any further attempt to bring him to a sense of his iniquity.
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kiss
love
regency-romance
romance
|
Georgette Heyer |
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2e6cdff
|
Bizi sevmeyen herhangi birinin yarali, eksik ve bir sekilde hasta oldugunu nereden cikariyoruz? Ozellikle de bir Tanri'yi veya aglayan Meryem Ana'yi veya Isa'nin yuzunu bize tercih ettikleri zaman onlara niye deli diyoruz? Aklini yitirmis. Cilgin. Kendi iyiligimizden, sevgimizin iyiliginden oylesine eminiz ki, bizden daha cok sevilmeye deger, bizden daha cok tapinilmaya deger bir sey olabilecegi dusuncesine bile tahammul edemiyoruz. Kutlama kartlari bize herkesin sevilmeyi hak ettigini, surekli olarak soyluyor. Hayir. Herkes temiz suyu hak eder. Ama herkes her zaman sevilmeyi hak etmez.
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love
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Zadie Smith |
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064a972
|
Eve still marveled on a daily basis at the speed with which her own life had changed. A year ago, she'd been lost and flailing, and now she was found. She wanted to call it a miracle, but it was simpler than that, and a lot more ordinary; she'd met a kind and decent man who loved her.
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|
life-changing-events
love
middle-age
relationships
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Tom Perrotta |
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fcec2b4
|
Every human being who loves another loves imperfection, for there is no perfect being on this earth--nothing is so simple as that.
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imperfection
love
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Susan Cooper |
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2afceb4
|
We're going to be married and hardly touch each other and have to work and work and never have any fun and we're just going to be okay with it because that's how life is and that's how relationships go, but I don't want that. I want our marriage to be... fun. I love joking around while we fool around. I want to hold hands everywhere we go. I want to make out in the back of a movie theater, steal kisses in coffee shops, have sex over every inch of our apartment or house or wherever we live. And I'm scared marriage will change the fun part of our relationship. The part that keeps us young, keeps us in love, and I'm terrified you'll wake up when you're fifty and realize you're stuck with the decision you made when you were twenty-seven, and we haven't touched in months, we don't go out. I just want to know when that happens... that you'll still... you'll still love me.
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love
marriage
real
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Cassie Mae |
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4c8441a
|
Greeting cards routinely tell us that everybody deserves love. No. Everybody deserves clean water. Not everybody deserves love all of the time.
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love
poverty
water
|
Zadie Smith |
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53c7dd5
|
volveremos a encontrarnos en mejores circunstancias o en otras vidas
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love
vida
|
Isabel Allende |
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50f8573
|
Something had changed. He had journeyed--as on rare occasions a man must--till he stood behind right and wrong. On the banks of the grey torrent of life, love is the only flower.
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love
|
E.M. Forster |
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38b13a6
|
The loves of all hearts are so many mirrors revealing their characters.
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love
|
Fulton J. Sheen |
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19f8a1c
|
"The beauty of being human is the capacity and desire for intimacy. Yet we know that even those who are most intimate remain strange to us. Like children, we often "make strange" with each other."
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|
belonging
communion
divine-love
friendship
intimacy
longing
love
relationship
solitude
|
John O'Donohue |
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96ccc79
|
Love isn't about thinking. You should know that by now.
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love
|
Carl Hiaasen |
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b4b3b34
|
I too can play the madman, the fool, the hero; in short, any or everything to rescue her I love.
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love
|
James Fenimore Cooper |
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8069bf6
|
"Oh, Danny, it's so confusing." "Not really. You're falling in love with him. Or are already in love with him." "But am I? Or just... overwhelmed?" "Love is overwhelming.[...]"
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louisa
love
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Jennifer Ashley |
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abcec2e
|
My love, I'm here. I'll wait my whole life through until you're done, there in the cove at Kamouraska. Until you wash your blood-soaked hands and make your way back to me
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|
here
love
love-quotes
my-love
return
romance
wait-for-you
|
Anne Hébert |
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8b53126
|
Nothing in creation is ever totally at home in itself. ... It is the deepest intimacy which is nevertheless infused with infinite distance.
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|
communion
longing
love
oneness
spiritual-seeking
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John O'Donohue |
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ed63dae
|
It was something in the way she moved. Something in the way she breathed. Something in the way she merely 'was' . And he didn't think he was ever going to get over it.
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|
chapter-8
favorite
francesca-kilmartin-bridgerton
julia-quinn
love
michael-stirling
when-he-was-wicked
|
Julia Quinn |
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aeef7dc
|
"I looked at his grave and, with tears in my eyes, I voiced these words: "You were worth it, old friend, and a thousand times over."
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dogs
friendship
love
loyalty
|
Wilson Rawls |
|
ce28276
|
Was it possible to fall in love with the same man over and over again, every single day?
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|
bridgertons
chapter-22
julia-quinn
kate-sheffield
love
the-viscount-who-loved-me
|
Julia Quinn |
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cd6800f
|
They have lied to us. They can't keep us from dying, so They lie to us about death. A cooperative structure of lies. What have they ever given us in return for the trust, the love--They actually say 'love'--we're supposed to owe Them? Can They keep us from even catching cold? from lice, from being alone? from anything? Before the Rocket we went on believing, because we wanted to. But the Rocket can penetrate, from the sky, at any given point. Nowhere is safe. We can't believe Them any more. Not if we are still sane, and love the truth.
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|
futility-of-war
love
lying
religion
truth
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Thomas Pynchon |
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e49e33c
|
"He touched her chin. His eyes never left hers, and she almost felt as if he'd touched those as well. And then, with the softest, most tender caress imaginable, he kissed her. Sophie didn't just feel loved; she felt revered. "I should wait until Monday," he said, "but I don't want to." "I don't want you to wait," she whispered. He kissed her again, this time with a bit more urgency. "You're so beautiful," he murmured. "Everything I ever dreamed of." His lips found her cheek, her chin, her neck, and every kiss, every nibble robbed her of balance and breath. She was sure her legs would give out, sure her strength would fail her under his tender onslaught, and just when she was convinced she'd crumple to the floor, he scooped her into his arms and carried her to the bed. "In my heart," he vowed, settling her against the quilts and pillows, "you are my wife." Sophie's breath caught. "After our wedding it will be legal," he said, stretching out alongside her, "blessed by God and country, but right now--" His voice grew hoarse as he propped himself up on one elbow so that he could gaze into her eyes. "Right now it is ." Sophie reached up and touched his face. "I love you," she whispered. "I have always loved you. I think I loved you before I even knew you." He leaned down to kiss her anew, but she stopped him with a breathy, "No, wait." He paused, mere inches from her lips. "At the masquerade," she said, her voice uncharacteristically shaky, "even before I saw you, I you. Anticipation. Magic. There was something in the air. And when I turned, and you were there, it was as if you'd been waiting for me, and I knew that you were the reason I'd stolen into the ball." Something wet hit her cheek. A single tear, fallen from his eye. "You are the reason I exist," she said softly, "the very reason I was born." He opened his mouth, and for a moment she was certain he would say something, but the only sound that emerged was a rough, halting noise, and she realized that he was overcome, that he could not speak. She was undone."
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love
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Julia Quinn |
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b9547f5
|
When it was daylight, we'd been sitting on a stoop watching the street get light. She mentioned the light took eight minutes to leave the sun and reach us. You couldn't help but love that light traveling so far through the loneliest of spaces to get here, to come so far. It was like we were the only two people in the world.
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love
sun
|
Marisha Pessl |
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dba3dbf
|
Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own.
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inspirational
love
|
Karen Kingsbury |
|
cb1b2dd
|
She felt like she'd slipped into another world. For the first time someone knew exactly what the hurt felt like.
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|
inspiration
love
romance
|
Karen Kingsbury |
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94585e0
|
She didn't care if he was telling the truth. Milly felt nothing but she was very good at making men think otherwise. Sometimes, she nearly convinced herself.
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love
sex
|
Roxane Gay |
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b579504
|
I would have seen flaws in this, later in my life. I would have felt the impatience, even suspicion, a woman can feel towards a man who lacks a motive. Who has only friendship to offer and offers that so easily and bountifully that even if it is rejected he can move along as buoyantly as ever. Here was no solitary fellow hoping to hook up with a girl. Even I could see that, inexperienced as I was. Just a person who took comfort in the moment and in a sort of reasonable facade of life.
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love
men
relationships
|
Alice Munro |
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58e48a8
|
"...My voice is stained with bloody light, and I see irises dry up at its touch; in my song I wear the finery of a white-faced clown. Love, sweet Love, hides under a spider. The sun, another spider, hides me under legs of gold. I will not find my fortune, for I am like Love himself,
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love
poetry
|
Federico García Lorca |
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e0e496a
|
I ran down the hill. I went to your place, afraid, I don't know. I just didn't know. But you were gone. I came here, to Lucy. I thought maybe you'd be hiding inside or something. I waited. But you never showed, of course. I searched for you.For years. I didn't know if you were dead or alive. I saw your face on every street, in every bar.
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love
|
Harlan Coben |
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21e1c1a
|
I look at the helpless bundle in the crib and she looks up at me and I wonder what I would not do to protect her. I would lay down my life in a second. And truth be told, if push came to shove, I would lay down yours too.
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|
kids
love
|
Harlan Coben |
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5e37085
|
Francisco l'attrasse a se e le cerco le labbra. Fu un bacio casto, tiepido, lieve tuttavia ebbe l'effetto di una scossa tellurica nei loro sensi. Entrambi percepirono la pelle dell'altro prima mai cosi precisa e vicina, la pressione delle loro mani, l'intimita di un contatto anelato fin dagli inizi del tempo. Li invase un calore palpitante nelle ossa nelle vene nell'anima, qualcosa che non conoscevano o che avevano del tutto scordato, perche la memoria della carne e fragile. Tutto scomparve intorno ed ebbero coscienza solo delle labbra unite che prendevano e ricevevano.
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love
lovers
sex
|
Isabel Allende |
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43446bb
|
"Papa always said that in the beginning men and women roamed the world together, equal in strength - like lions and tigers -" "And giraffes?" interpolated Colonel Race slyly. I laughed. Everyone makes fun of that giraffe. "And giraffes. They were nomadic, you see. It wasn't till they settled down in communities, and women did one kind of thing and men another, that women got weak. And of course, underneath, one is still the same - one feels the same, I mean - and that is why women worship physical strength in men - it's what they once had and have lost." "Almost ancestor worship, in fact?" "Something of the kind." "And you really think that's true? That women worship strength, I mean?" "I think it's quite true - if one's honest. You think you admire moral qualities,but when you fall in love, you revert to the primitive where the physical is all that counts. But I don't think that's the end, if you lived in primitive conditions it would be all right, but you don't - and so, in the end, the other thing wins after all. It's the things that are apparently conquered that always do win, isn't it? They win in the only way that counts. Like what the Bible says about losing your life and finding it.". "In the end," said Colonel Race thoughtfully, "you fall in love - and you fall out of it, is that what you mean?" "Not exactly, but you can put it that way if you like."
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evolution
love
|
Agatha Christie |
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259d687
|
A thought struck me: maybe I wouldn't ever be the real me again. Because the only thing that would snap things back to the way they were, would be if he had't died.
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life
love
moving-on
sad
wife
|
Marian Keyes |
|
04497b5
|
... But hurting ourselves to inflict pain to others is just another cry to be loved.
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|
love
pain
self-awareness
|
Mitch Albom |
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761291d
|
"Why did you enter Gobhann?" "I already told you." "I know what you told me", she said impatiently. "I want to know the real reason." He looked at her thoughtfully for a moment, then reached for her plate. He set it down on the floor with his, then pulled her close and put his mouth against her ear. "I went inside Gobhann because I wanted you to come out of the dark. With me. Because I love you. Because you were made for more than life in that dreadful place." He sat back. "There. All the reasons."
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love
miach
morgan
|
Lynn Kurland |
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f77d0b6
|
But there she was, standing next to his mother, so beautiful, so radiant that he could not see anyone else. Suddenly the rest of the world seemed like such a chore. He didn't want to be here at this dance, with people he didn't want to talk to and messages he didn't particularly wish to deliver. He didn't want to dance with young ladies he didn't know, and he didn't want to make polite conversation with people he did. He just wanted Billie, and he wanted her all to himself. He forgot about Tallywhite. He forgot about pease, porridge, and pudding, and he stalked across the room with such single-minded purpose that the crowds seemed to melt from his path. And somehow, amazingly, the rest of the world had not yet noticed her. She was so beautiful, so uncommonly alive and real in this room full of waxen dolls. She would not go undiscovered for long. But not yet. Soon he would have to fight the throngs of eager young gentlemen, but for now, she was still his alone.
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|
beauty
focus
love
|
Julia Quinn |
|
6010375
|
The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.
|
|
love
passed
thought
thought-to-ponder
years
|
Larry McMurtry |
|
e3e2821
|
I contemplated her, seeing her young bland face looking at me, now removed as if behind a gauze curtain. She quietly invited me to suffer. There was a great space now, a great silent hall in which this suffering could take place. There was no urgency now, nothing to plan, nothing to achieve. What shall I do with it, I asked her, what shall I do now with my love for you which you so terribly revived by reappearing in my life? Why did you come back, if you could not content me? What can I do now with the great useless machine of my love which has no wholesome work to do? I can do nothing for you any more, my darling. I wondered if I would be fated to live with this love, making of it a shrine which could not now be desecrated. Perhaps when I was living alone and being everyone's uncle like a celibate priest I would keep this fruitless love as my secret chapel. Could I then learn to love uselessly and unpossessively and would this prove to be the monastic mysticism which I had hoped to attain when I came away to the sea?
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|
love
the-sea-the-sea
unrequited-love
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
379f64a
|
"John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!" That silenced him for a few moments. Then he said--very quietly indeed, "Open the door, my darling!" "I can't," said I. "The key is down by the front door under a plantain leaf!" And then I said it again, several times, very gently and slowly, and said it so often that he had to go and see, and he got it of course, and came in."
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|
irony
love
marriage
|
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
|
fb14f8a
|
She could not bear the tenderness which a dog would evoke, she did not want the pain of another love. She knew how very much, how desperately, she would love her dog; and dogs are vulnerable and short-lived and die.
|
|
iris-murdoch
love
painful
pets
tenderness
the-message-to-the-planet
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
3ff2978
|
Perhaps twenty minutes later he realized she had gone to sleep. He quietly removed his now stiff arm, then turned away. It must have woken her a little After a moment he felt her turn as well and lay a hand, instinctively, like a sleeping wife, across his hips; as if, in some dream, he was the one who escaped.
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|
john-fowles
loneliness
love
sleep
|
John Fowles |
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6f71a2e
|
John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall. But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so! Besides, it is such an undertaking to go so far. I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous. I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.
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love
|
Charlotte Perkins Gilman |
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1671a2c
|
I suppose that's the way affairs come to an end. Somebody grabs a fork and stabs the other in the hand. And that's it
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|
heartbreak
love
|
Alexander McCall Smith |
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047700a
|
His smiles were hard won, but when they came, they were well worth it. They lit up his face like summer sunshine. The rest of the time, and far more frequently, he seemed lost in winter. And when he laughed, he was a different person.
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friendship
love
pretty
romantic
smiles
|
Danielle Steel |
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bb8700d
|
Ariadne made an impression on you, and that's great. But life is not literature. Sooner or later, the spell wears off, the romantic feelings disappear, and you're left watching somebody's body disintegrate. You start with a love story, you end up manacled to an hourglass, watching the sands run out.
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love
marriage
relationships
|
Paul Murray |
|
620cba0
|
To say we were 'in love', that vague weakened phrase, cannot express it. We loved each other, we lived in each other, through each other, by each other. We were each other. Why was it such pure unadulterated pain?
|
|
iris-murdoch
love
the-sea-the-sea
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
073aec2
|
How fearful that dark shadow is when we catch sight of it in the life of another. No wonder those at whom that black arrow is aimed so often turn and flee. How unendurable it can be, the love another bears us. I would never persecute my darling with that dread knowledge. From now onward until the world ended everything must remain, although utterly changed, exactly as it was before.
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|
iris-murdoch
love
selfless
the-black-prince
unrequited-love
unspoken
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
2ff31c8
|
How could it be that I had actually kissed her cheek without enveloping her, without becoming her? How could I at that moment have refrained from kneeling at her feet and howling?
|
|
desire
dramatic
howling
iris-murdoch
kiss
love
passionate-love
soul-mates
the-black-prince
|
Iris Murdoch |
|
6354e7d
|
we must love those with whom we live and work, and love them for all their failings, manifest and manifold though they be.
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|
failings
humanity
love
|
Alexander McCall Smith |
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9636290
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He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect.
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love
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Julia Quinn |
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38f3555
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... con tantos encajes pareces una ola y me das el mismo miedo que de nino tuve al mar.
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love
ocean
sea
spanish
water
waves
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Federico García Lorca |
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bea69e2
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She did not think that those who were late, or the ancestors themselves, would wish punishment upon us, no matter what our transgressions. It was far more likely that there would be love, falling like rain from above, changing the hearts of the wicked; transforming them
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forgiveness
love
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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7ed3b1d
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"We didn't want to waste this second chance--
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love
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Craig Thompson |
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5d08208
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Oh what an ill fate it was that has made me love that man.
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iris-murdoch
love
misfortune
the-message-to-the-planet
toxic-relationships
|
Iris Murdoch |
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1d2ebb4
|
Ageing is not easy, Senhora Castro. It's a terrible, incurable pathology. And great love is another pathology.
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love
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Yann Martel |
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af42735
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How much [vastly {immensely (unfathomably) tremendously}...] Anwar loves [t]his child. It continues to take him by surprise [even when she confounds him with the havoc of her room {for example} which she will proudly describe {defend!} as clean {those beautiful messes (beautiful even today)} even as {in the next moment} she will astonish Anwar with her fearless interest in life {despite the harrowing blows life continues to deliver her (and so delivers to Anwar...)}].
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love
parenting
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Mark Z. Danielewski |
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3c4dcf5
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I don't know what it is about the food your mother makes for you, especially when it's something that anyone can make - pancakes, meat loaf, tuna salad - but it carries a certain taste of memory.
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love
memory
mother
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Mitch Albom |
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89005ea
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"Anger, resentment, jealousy, desire for revenge, lust, greed, antagonisms, and rivalries are the obvious signs that I have left home. And that happens quite easily. When I pay careful attention to what goes on in my mind from moment to moment, I come to the disconcerting discovery that there are very few moments during the day when I am really free from these dark emotions, passions and feelings. Constantly falling back into an old trap, before I am even fully aware of it, I find myself wondering why someone hurt me, rejected me, or didn't pay attention to me. Without realizing it, I find myself brooding about someone else's success, my own loneliness, and the way the world abuses me. Despite my conscious intentions, I often catch myself daydreaming about becoming rich, powerful, and very famous. All of these mental games reveal to me the fragility of my faith that I am the Beloved One on whom God's favor rests. I am so afraid of being disliked, blamed, put aside, passed over, ignored, persecuted, and killed, that I am constantly developing strategies to defend myself and thereby assure myself of the love I think I need and deserve. And in so doing I move far away from my father's home and choose to dwell in a "distant country." --
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father
hurt
jealousy
love
lust
resentment
revenge
rivalry
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Henri J.M. Nouwen |
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309fd0f
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But what was good tween us must have been nothing but bodies, she say. Cause I don't know the Albert that don't dance, can't hardly laugh, never talk bout nothing, beat you and hid your sister Nettie's letters. Who he?
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deceit
love
memory
relationship
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alice walker |
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0c839f6
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syaamuyyel kryaamaar, yini prthm dike myaanuyyelaa de mNtebherde benaame kyyekttaa romaanttik bokaami si krechilen -- romaanttisijmer sonaali dinguloyy -- tini phyaakaashe ek jaarmaan baabaa ebN myylaa ek cile maayyer prsprbirodhii phsl / ei dbait shurur sngge yog krun phraasi shikssaa aar saahityik prekssaaptt, aar aapni abaak hben -- kiNbaa, hyyto, pritusstt o maansikbhaabe tRpt -- taaNr critrer adbhut jttiltaar kthaa shune / syaamuyyeler aache bishuddh, bhruukoNckaano, kaalokphir phoNttaar mtn ckcke dui cokh, uddht o abjnyaachaap naak, behaayyaa kaamuk tthoNtt, cauko sbairaacaarii thutni, aar raaphaayyelke nkl-kraa maathaabhrti cul / --- lokttaa ekisngge bhiissnn als, krunnaa-jaagaano uccaakaangkhii, ebN khyaati-paaoyyaa abhaagaa ; kennaa saaraajiibne uni aadhkhyaaNcrraa dhyaandhaarnnaa chaarraa aar kichui brro ekttaa bhaabte paarenni / kuNrremir ye suury onaar caaripaashe copordin rod chrraayy taa onaake kssiyye diyyechil, aar kheyye phelechil onaake deyyaa sbrger ysaamaany prtibhaar khoraak / pyaariser ei bhyyngkr jiibne aami ye smst aaddek-bishaal maanussder dekhechi, syaamuyyel seisb jmghttiyyaa caalu cijer ceyye beshi-kichu chilen -- duniyyaar baaire ekjn , kheyyaali jiib, yaaNr kbitaa onaar rcnaar ceyye cehaaraayy beshi kholtaai hto, emni ekjn yini, dupur ekttaa naagaad, taap poyyaabaar kyylaar aaguner jhlk aar ghrrir ttikttker maajhe, sb smyy mne hto yen npuNsktaar ekjn debtaa -- ekjn aadhunik, ubhlainggik debtaa --- npuNsktaayy emn bishaal, emn nidaarunn ye taaNke mne hto mhaakaabyik !
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life-quotes
loss
love
lover
stupidity
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Charles Baudelaire |
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d4915ce
|
He worshipped at the temple of her intellect and I believe it was a comfort to him to know that she left our world with it still shining.
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love
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Matthew Pearl |
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ba49e76
|
What could Maria call the time that opened ahead of her? The certainty of her hope? This rejuvenated air she was breathing? This incandescence, this bursting of a love at last without object?
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breathing-room
certainty
hope
love
time
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Marguerite Duras |
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4de4d3c
|
Aucun couple, meme le meilleur, ne peut encourager a l'amour, ce n'est pas vrai.
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love
relationships
|
Marguerite Duras |
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3461978
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What's time between a mother and her daughter? Never too much, never enough.
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love
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Mitch Albom |
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a3d6b8b
|
They had killed themselves over the failure to find a love that none of us could ever be.
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impossible
jeffrey-eugenides
love
suicide
the-virgin-suicides
unattainable
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Jeffrey Eugenides |
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8e661ef
|
He felt, though, that if love was the desire to possess someone, it was in reality the poor substance of self-love. It seemed to him that a greater, truer love was the desire to open a cage - be it made of iron bars or the bones of tormented injustice - and set the nightbird free.
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love
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Robert R. McCammon |
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f9f334d
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All the morning since he got up he had been trying to fight through his duties--leaning against a hope--a hope that first had bowed, and then had broke as soon as he really tried its weight. There was not a sign of Sylvia's liking for him to be gathered from the most careful recollection of the past evening. It was of no use thinking there was. It was better to give it up altogether and at once. But what if he could not? What if the thought of her was bound up with his life; and that once torn out by his own free will, the very roots of his heart must come also?
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love
philip
sylvia
thoughts
unreq
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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142096e
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"Maths was "the one true thing," according to Nancy.
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love
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Kate Atkinson |
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5636bed
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"Si chino per accarezzarmi. Fece scorrere la mano lungo la schiena e poi sotto al mento. <> dichiaro. Sposto la mano sopra la testa. <> mi chiese. <>.
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animals
dog
love
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Ann M. Martin |
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652073d
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We are among the first peoples in human history who do not broadly inherit religious identity as a given, a matter of kin and tribe, like hair color and hometown. But the very fluidity of this--the possibility of choice that arises, the ability to craft and discern one's own spiritual bearings--is not leading to the decline of spiritual life but its revival. It is changing us, collectively. It is even renewing religion, and our cultural encounter with religion, in counterintuitive ways. I meet scientists who speak of a religiosity without spirituality--a reverence for the place of ritual in human life, and the value of human community, without a need for something supernaturally transcendent. There is something called the New Humanism, which is in dialogue about moral imagination and ethical passions across boundaries of belief and nonbelief. But I apprehend-- with a knowledge that is as much visceral as cognitive-- that God is love. That somehow the possibility of care that can transform us-- love muscular and resilient-- is an echo of a reality behind reality, embedded in the creative force that gives us life.
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belief
choice
community
diversity
energy
ethics
faith
god
human
life
life-force
love
moral-imagination
mystery
new-humanism
nonbelief
religion
reverence
ritual
spirituality
tribe
wisdom
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Krista Tippett |
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c54758d
|
..moments of transport, and of comfort, and of a bracing vastness of possibility. That was all there for me sometimes when I plunged my mind into the Bible's puzzles; and it was always there in the music of church. I wouldn't have said it this way then. But I would feel all the cells in my body as I sang hymns that connected my little life with the grandeur of the cosmos, the Christian drama across space and time. This was my earliest experience of breath and body, mind and spirit soaring together, alive to both mystery and reality, in kinship with others both familiar and unknown. That's one way I'd define the feeling of faith now.
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|
christian
church
faith
hymns
love
mind
music
mystery
on-being
pantheism
reality
spirit
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Krista Tippett |
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d767d75
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"God is that force that drives us to really see each other and to really behold each other and care for each other and respond to each other. And for me, that is actually enough. That cultivating it, that thinking about it, worshipping it, working towards it, taking care of it, nurturing it in myself, nurturing it in other people, that really is a life's work right there, and it doesn't have to be any bigger than that. God doesn't have to be out in the next solar system over bashing asteroids together. It's plenty, just the God that I work with." Kate Braestrup"
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|
care
community
compassion
empathy
god
life-force
love
religion
soul
spirit
wisdom
|
Krista Tippett |
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f027d20
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"I wish," said Dr Perholt to the djinn, "I wish you would love me." "You honor me," said the djinn, "and maybe you have wasted your wish, for it may well be that love would have happened anyway, since we are together, and sharing our life stories, as lovers do."
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life-stories
love
|
A.S. Byatt |
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e13ec7f
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...I have always believed I cd diagnose this state of which they regard as as inspired by one pair of black eyes or indifferent blue, one graceful attitude of body or mind, one female history of some twenty-two years from, shall we say, 1821-1844--I have always believed this to be something of the masking itself under the particular forms of both lover and beloved. And Poet, who assumes and informs both. I wd have told you--no, I do tell you--friendship is rarer, more idiosyncratic, more individual and in every way more durable than this Love.
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love
|
A.S. Byatt |
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e4e55bc
|
"Know what the best thing your true love can give you is?" I asked him. "What?" said Dash. "True love."
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|
dash-and-lily
love
otp
true-love
twelve-days-of-christmas
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Rachel Cohn |
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b06434b
|
Se amava quel viso non indulgente, era perche era netto, espressivo e risoluto. Vedeva, o gli sembrava di vedere, come tali qualita fossero state mascherate o soffocate da atteggiamenti piu convenzionali: una modestia simulata, un'appropriata pazienza, un disprezzo che si spacciava per calma. Al suo peggio - oh, lui la vedeva chiaramente, malgrado la possessione che esercitava su di lui - al suo peggio guardava in basso e di traverso e sorrideva timidamente, e questo sorriso era quasi una smorfia meccanica, perche era una bugia, una convenzione, un breve forzato riconoscimento delle aspettative del mondo. Lu aveva visto subito, cosi gli pareva, cio che lei era in essenza, seduta alla tavola di Crabb Robinson ad ascoltare dispute maschili, credendosi osservatrice inosservata. Se, riflette, la maggior parte degli uomini avesse visto la durezza e la fierezza e la tirannia, si, la tirannia di quel volto, se ne sarebbe ritratta. Il suo destino sarebbe stato di essere amata solo da timidi inetti, segretamente desiderosi che lei li punisse o li comandasse, o da anime candide, convinte che la fredda aria di delicato riserbo esprimesse una sorta di purezza femminile che tutti a quei tempi facevano mostra di desiderare. Ma lui aveva capito immediatamente che lei era per lui, che lei aveva qualcosa in comune con lui, lei com'era veramente o avrebbe potuto essere, se fosse stata libera.
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identity
love
possession
women-s-nature
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A.S. Byatt |
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5c5ac15
|
She was tremendously fond of Ralph. Not hounded by love the way some women were. With Crighton she had been teased endlessly by the idea of it, but with Ralph it was more straightforward. Again not love, more like the feelings you would have for a favorite dog (and, no, she would never have said such a thing to him. Some people, a lot of people, didn't understand how attached one could be to a dog.)
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love
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Kate Atkinson |
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6515ecd
|
- because just by hating it's possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..
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|
hate
love
sword
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Daphne du Maurier |
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0051d40
|
A photograph may speak to the photographer's envy or disappointment just as much as it may reveal his anger or disapproval. And even if a photograph records a joyous occasion, behind it there may still be more than a small measure of heartbreak on the part of the photographer. A small measure of heartbreak? One might think such a thing is impossible--if your heart is broken, then surely it is broken completely. Yet the truth is that we can live with a minor fault-line in the heart--most of us do, in one way or another.
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love
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Alexander McCall Smith |
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ee20851
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And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.
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|
his-dark-materials
love
|
Philip Pullman |
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cba03b5
|
Around them there was nothing but silence, as if all the world were holding its breath.
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|
love
silence
spyglass
theamberspyglass
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Philip Pullman |
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724db5f
|
Messy love is better than none. I guess. I'm no authority on sane living.
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|
love
messy-love
passion
sanity
|
Margaret Atwood |
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d684a72
|
And as her love revived, so did her capacity for suffering. Life, more important, grew more bitter.
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love
suffering
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E.M. Forster |
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626dab0
|
The city was new again, and newly dangerous, and I would walk the streets quickly, eyes averted from those of passersby, like a spy in the employ of lust and happiness, carrying the secret deep within me but always on the tip of my tongue.
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love
sex
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Michael Chabon |
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b30f0bc
|
"...So, um, you're from Rochester? Like, New York?" Jersey asked. "Yup, we used to live out there," Rudger confirmed, nonchalant. "You ever been?" "Naw, the closest I've ever been to there would be... well, believe it or not, New Jersey, the place where my parents named me after. It was crowded, polluted and full of crime... I loved it."
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|
angst
city
crime
crowd
love
new-jersey
pollution
teenagers
travel
urban
|
Rebecca McNutt |
|
da195e2
|
[H]aving a money value was no substitute for love.
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love
truth
|
Margaret Atwood |
|
323cd7d
|
"(...) I could "talk fast" -- that's to say, without hesitating, stammering -- most of the time -- but there were categories of words, sentiments, I could never say, they'd have stuck in my throat. The embarrassment of it even whispering-teasing to Legs for instance 'Yeah you're my heart too!' or 'I love you' or 'I would die for you', nobody ever talked that way, mostly there was just my mother and me and we hardly talked at all."
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love
romantic-friendship
teenagers
|
Joyce Carol Oates |
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ffe302a
|
"Mearth appeared angry and disappointed briefly, but then she just gazed at the ground. "...It must be horrible, feeling all alone, is it?" she asked. "Oh, not really," said Alecto, his eyes lifeless, his voice listless. "I'm going to be forgotten by someone who I can't forget, though. That will be terrible... but maybe it's better if she does forget me altogether."
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forget
friendship
listless
lonliness
love
memory
sad
sadness
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Rebecca McNutt |
|
c4e9116
|
I already thought on that first evening of our meeting how glorious it would be to spend one's whole life regarded by those beautiful, candid eyes, and how it would then be impossible ever to think or do ill.
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|
love
love-at-first-sight
love-quotes
|
Hermann Hesse |
|
6f4a462
|
Belief, hard work, love - you have those things, you can do anything.
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|
hard-work
love
success
|
Mitch Albom |
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45ff322
|
"She came very close, and looking into my eyes, she said, "My Jenny," and then she bent her head and kissed me--here, on the left-hand corner of my mouth. And nobody knows better than I that I couldn't have felt anything, because Tamsin was a ghost--but nobody but me knows what I felt. And I'll always know."
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love
love-quotes
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Peter S. Beagle |
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5461ed7
|
"Answer me one thing," her twin said. "What." "Do you love the bas--him. Do you love him?" Payne looked back through the glass at the human on the bed. "Yes. I am in love with him. And if you try to dissuade me by the fact that I have not lived yet enough to judge, I say unto you . . . fuck off." -Vishous & Payne"
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love
|
J.R. Ward |
|
d71e7a9
|
Who doesn't love cock?
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|
love
|
Hanif Kureishi |
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e24dbbc
|
"Farkinda misiniz leydim bilmiyorum ama benimle pazarlik ettiniz, bana emir verdiniz, beni ikna etmeye calistiniz. Her turlu yolu denediniz, sadece bir yol kaldi." "Neymis o?" "Lutfen demek."
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love
romance
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Shannon Drake |
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afa2f60
|
As usual, he saves his wife's for last. He leans on the cane and he looks at the headstone and he thinks about many things. Taffy. He thinks about taffy. He thinks it would take his teeth out now, but he would eat it anyhow, if it meant eating it with her.
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|
death
graveyard
headstone
humour
love
memory
sacrifice
taffy
teeth
widower
|
Mitch Albom |
|
816a89e
|
I learned that protecting someone by keeping him away from me doesn't shelter either of us. I learned that feeling other people's feelings for them doesn't bring us closer, it only separates me from myself and my needs. I always thought being codependent meant being too emotionally glued to someone; I didn't realize the way I was doing it was setting me adrift.
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|
introspection
love
relationship
|
Lisa Scottoline |
|
8235210
|
"I think we ought to find something else to do," said Mandy. "But Alecto my love, you're the first person to notice my retro diner kitchen. When my parents saw it, they thought I was creating a weird art project." "I like it. It's got that let's-drown-ourselves-in-better-days type ambiance," Alecto declared, his gray eyes narrowed."
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ambience
art
better-days
cape-breton
diner
drowning
fifties
friendship
funny
kitchen
love
nostalgia
nova-scotia
parents
pollution
retro
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Rebecca McNutt |
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034836d
|
Ia liubliu tebia s toi samoi sekundy, kogda vpervye uvidel tebia. Mne kazhetsia, ia vsegda liubil tebia - stol'ko, skol'ko sushchestvuet na svete liubov'. Ia liubliu tvoi golos. Ia liubliu tvoe litso. Ia liubliu tvoi ruki. Ia liubliu vse, chto ty delaesh', i to, kak ty eto delaesh'. Kogda ty prikasaesh'sia ko mne, mne kazhetsia, chto eto volshebnaia palochka. Ia liubliu sledit' za tem, kak ty dumaesh', i slushat' to, chto ty govorish'. Ia chuvstvuiu vse eto, no ne ponimaiu i ne mogu ob'iasnit' - ni tebe, ni sebe. Ia prosto liubliu tebia, liubliu vsem serdtsem. Ty vypolniaesh' missiiu Boga: pridaesh' smysl moei zhizni. I potomu mne est' za chto liubit' etot mir.
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|
love
people
shantaram
|
Gregory David Roberts |
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5759825
|
"This is George, my beloved George. D'you think I want to go to my grave knowing that at the moment of his trial he looked around and saw no one lift a finger for him? If it is the death of me, I shall go to him." "Go then," he said. "Kiss our baby good-bye before you go, and Henry. I shall tell Catherine that you left your blessing for her. And kiss me farewell. For if you go into that courtroom you will never come out alive."
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love
sacrifice
|
Philippa Gregory |
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733cf38
|
"...Look, I'm real sorry about Cheryl, I know you loved her a lot," Mandy apologized gloomily. "It's wrong that people have to keep killing off Pollution." "It's alright, I think she wants to be remediated," Alecto told her calmly, though his grief-stricken and depressed expression said more to Mandy than his words did. "You don't have to forget Cheryl, no matter what Mearth said to you," Mandy pointed out. "People shouldn't be forced to forget what they love, or to just get over the death of what they love. Cheryl was your friend and nobody can make you forget her if you don't want to."
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|
confusion
death
depression
fear
friendship
grief
grief-stricken
help
hope
lonliness
loss
love
memory
pollution
remediation
removal
uncertainty
|
Rebecca McNutt |
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43c4390
|
This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.
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|
love
radical
travel
|
Erika Lopez |
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c845285
|
We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.
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|
love
sensuality
|
Azar Nafisi |
|
ff44d29
|
I used to think to myself that I was the last kind of person who should have a guardian angel, but then I realized that maybe my type of person is the kind who angels come to first.
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|
first
friends
friendship
guardian-angel
love
person
type
worth
|
Rebecca McNutt |
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39da8a2
|
Nao ha porque te compares com os demais, e se a natureza te criou para morcego, nao deves aspirar ser avestruz. as vezes te consideras por demais esquisito e te reprovas por seguires caminhos diversos dos da maioria. Deixa-te disso. Contempla o fogo, as nuvens e quando surgirem pressagios e as vozes soarem em tua alma abandona-te a elas sem perguntares se isso convem.
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|
love
max-demian
reflection
sinclair
|
Hermann Hesse |
|
cd69f95
|
For one scant day he had loved himself, felt himself to be unified and whole, not split into hostile parts; he had loved himself and the world and God in himself, and everywhere he went he had met nothing but love, approval, and joy.
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|
klein-and-wagner
love
|
Hermann Hesse |
|
e47c4ba
|
But stronger than his knowledge was his love for the boy, his devotion, his fear of losing him. Had he ever lost his heart to anybody so completely, so painfully, so hopelessly and yet so happily?
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love
|
Hermann Hesse |
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186d548
|
You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occasionally mean as a badger, and more generous than you'll admit.
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love
roarke
romance
|
J.D. Robb |
|
b7029d7
|
... ir jo balsas pasidare duslus nuo svelnumo.
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love
|
Hermann Hesse |
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e850f11
|
I go, but I always remember you.
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journey
love
memory
|
Isabel Allende |
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7b133a0
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Todo desaparecio a su alrededor y solo tuvieron consciencia de sus labios unidos tomando y recibiendo. En verdad apenas fue un beso, la sugerencia de un contacto esperado e inevitable, pero ambos estaban seguros de que ese seria el unico beso que pudieran recordar hasta el fin de sus dias y de todas las caricias la unica en dejar una huella certera en sus nostalgias. Supieron que dentro de anos todavia podrian evocar con presion el contacto humedo y calido de sus labios, el olor a pasto fresco y la tormentosa sensacion de sus espiritus.
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love
nostalgy
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Isabel Allende |
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"It's true, I guess, that no matter how much it sucks, you're supposed to sacrifice things for a friend. It was a concept that he hadn't understood earlier on in his life. In elementary school, Bernie had been assigned 'Charlotte's Web' to read, and he'd always found it selfish how Charlotte the spider gave everything she had to Wilbur the pig, all her time and energy trying to keep this pig alive and off the farmer's dinner plate, only to end up dying in the wispy remains of her last cobweb. "That pig was a selfish bastard who whined too much." He hadn't understood why, in his college days watching 'The Smurfs' cartoon on TV just to pass the time, the evil wizard Gargamel had kept his bratty little apprentice, Scruple, around with him even when there was no incentive to do it and it would have been more convenient to just get rid of him. "Well, you give and you give and you give, you sacrifice things for somebody even when you normally wouldn't, but you get back something worth having, maybe. Something worth all that sacrifice... I mean, what's life worth if you have nobody to share it with, anyway?"
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friend
friendship
love
pop-culture
pop-culture-reference
sacrifice
sharing
smurfs
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Rebecca McNutt |
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After a time he found and opened a book he had been reading that he had expected to end well, a romance which he wanted to end well, with the hero and heroine finding love, with peace and joy and redemption and understanding. Love is two bodies with one soul, he read, and turned the page. But there was nothing - the final page had been ripped away and used as toilet paper or smoked, and there was no hope or joy or understanding. There was no last page. The book of his life just broke off. There was only the mud below him and the filthy sky above. There was to be no peace and no hope. And Dorrigo Evans understood that the love story would go on forever and ever, world without end.
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love
page
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Richard Flanagan |
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With his two hands he props up his jaw. He passes without a word. Perhaps he does not see me. One of these days I'll challenge him. I'll say, I don't know, I'll say something, I'll think of something when the time comes.
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love
perhaps-when-the-time-comes
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Samuel Beckett |
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Because courage, survival, love--all these things didn't live in one man. They lived in them all or they died and every man with them; they had come to believe that to abandon one man was to abandon themselves.
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love
survival
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Richard Flanagan |
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"I glare at him and sigh. "Don't you understand what a book is?" "Obviously."
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emmahart
life
love
novel
quote
reading
reality
romance
standalone
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Emma Hart |
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I do not know what to do with the emotions inside me. I do not know how to be this close to someone and still hold on to myself.
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love
relationships
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Lisa Renee Jones |
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"The second dream is more difficult to convey. Nothing happened. He scarcely saw a face, scarcely heard a voice say, "That is your friend," and then it was over, having filled him with beauty and taught him tenderness. He could die for such a friend, he would allow such a friend to die for him; they would make any sacrifice for each other, and count the world nothing, neither death nor distance nor crossness could part them, because "this is my friend."
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dreams
lgbt
love
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E.M. Forster |
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There is really no natural limit to the practice of loving kindness in meditation or in one's life. It is an ongoing, ever-expanding realization of interconnectedness. It is also its embodiment. When you can love one tree or one flower or one dog or one place, or one person or yourself for one moment, you can find all people, all places, all suffering, all harmony in that one moment. Practicing in this way is not trying to change anything or get anywhere, although it might look like it on the surface. What it is really doing is uncovering what is always present. Love and kindness are here all the time, somewhere, in fact, everywhere. Usually our ability to touch them and be touched by them lies buried below our own fears and hurts, below our greed and our hatreds, below our desperate clinging to the illusion that we are truly separate and alone. (...). Make sure that you are not to help anybody else or the planet. Rather, you are simply holding them in awareness, honoring them, wishing them well, opening to their pain with kindness and compassion and acceptance.
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all-people
all-places
awareness
compassion
everywhere
expanding
harmony
honouring
illusion
interconnectedness
kindness
life
love
loving
loving-kindness
meditation
mindfulness
opening-to-pain
presence
realisation
touched
uncovering
unlimited
well-wishing
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Jon Kabat-Zinn |
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And maybe - maybe - love will arrive, and remain.
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love
remain
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Michael Cunningham |
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"Tuk niama da vi lipsva niakoi poludial ot liubov, koito v nai-skoro vreme da vi predostavi tazi v'zmozhnost." I dokato go kazvashe, doktor't si dade smetka, che izmezhdu bezbroinite samoubiistva s tsianova sol, koito pomneshe, tova e p'rvoto, chiiato prichina ne e neshchastna liubov. Togava neshcho v obichainiia mu ton se promeni. - A kogato vi se predostavi, ob'rnete vnimanie - kaza toi na stazhanta medik: - Te obiknoveno imat pias'k v s'rtseto."
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love
suicide
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Gabriel García Márquez |
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I stared at the little white agates in my hand, delicate as moon drops. The mystery of God's love as I understand it is that God loves the man who was being mean to his dog just as much as he loves babies; God loves Susan Smith, who drowned her two sons, as much as he loves Desmond Tutu. And he loved her just as much when she was releasing the handbrake of her car that sent her boys into the river as he did when she first nursed them. So of course, he loves old ordinary me, even or especially at my most scared and petty and mean and obsessive. Loves me; chooses me. Remembering this helped, but here is what in fact saved me: Sam came over to see what I held in my palm, glared contemptuously at my small white pebbles, and then without missing a beat slapped the bottom of my hand so that the agates scattered. He ran off down the beach, laughing with glee. It surprised me so, this small meanness, that it made me catch my breath. Boy, I thought, is he going to be hard to place. When I was young I would have felt, What's the point of trying to be good if the people who aren't even trying get to be equally loved? Now I just picked up my pace and tried to catch up with that rotten Sam, because I don't know much of anything for sure. Only that I am loved - as is
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god-s-love
knowledge
love
mystery
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Anne Lamott |
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people still fall in love, and out, yes, in and out, and out and in, and they please each other, and hurt each other, isn't that the truth, and they do these things in more or less conventionally dramatic fashion, unfashionable or not, go on, I'm going, and what goes on between them is still not only the most interesting but the most important thing in the bloody murderous world
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hurt
love
truth
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John Barth |
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Love was an emotion through which you occasionally enjoyed yourself. It could not do things.
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love
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E.M. Forster |
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"More often than not, a woman marries for money and a man marries for sex. What difference does a sheet of paper with signatures make?" "If you have to ask, you wouldn't understand the answer," she said simply."
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love
marriage
sex
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Diana Palmer |
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...[M]ost of us have figured out that we have to do what's in front of us and keep doing it. We clean up beaches after oil spills. We rebuild whole towns after hurricanes and tornadoes. We return calls and library books. We get people water. Some of us even pray. Every time we choose the good action or response, the decent, the valuable, it builds, incrementally, to renewal, resurrection, the place of newness, freedom, justice. The equation is: life, death, resurrection, hope. The horror is real, and so you make casseroles for your neighbor, organize an overseas clothing drive, and do your laundry. You can also offer to do other people's laundry if they have recently had any random babies or surgeries. We live stitch by stitch, when we're lucky. If you fixate on the big picture, the whole shebang, the overview, you miss the stitching. And maybe the stitching is crude, or it is unraveling, but if it were precise, we'd pretend that life was just fine and running like a Swiss watch. That's not helpful if on the inside our understanding is that life is more often a cuckoo clock with rusty gears.
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hard-times
love
neighbors
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Anne Lamott |
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i' don't really understand people who are in love . it's difficult to display your emotions.
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emotions-quotes
love
manga
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Ai Yazawa |
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So when I let my head fall back under Sarah's kiss, the frenzy I trembled at just wasn't there. Instead, comfort and joy and simplicity and order and answers to questions I'd always supposed unanswerable, such as, why was I born? why a woman? why here? why now? A wonderful glowing spacious peacefulness came to us. There was so much time.
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lesbian-romance
love
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Isabel Miller |
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"He gave us taste buds, then filled the world with incredible flavors like chocolate and cinnamon and all the other spices. He gave us eyes to perceive color and then filled the world with a rainbow of shades. He gave us sensitive ears and then filled the world with rhythms and music. Your capacity for enjoyment is evidence of God's love for you. He could have made the world tasteless, colorless, and silent. The Bible says that God "richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment." He didn't have to do it, but he did, because He loves us."
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christianity
christmas
gift
god
holiday
inspirational
jesus
joy
love
peace
purpose
religion
worth
worthy
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Rick Warren |