“make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love. for if these qualities are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being ineffectual and unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” - 2 peter 1:5-8
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“and she does find it difficult to believe— that a person would love her even when she isn’t trying. trying to figure out what other people need, trying to be worthy.” - robber bride, margaret atwood
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“she was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions.” - the picture of dorian gray, oscar wilde
“but, ah me! where is the faultless human creature who can persevere in a good resolution, without sometimes failing and falling back? where is the woman who has ever really torn from her heart the image that has been once fixed in it by a true love? books tell us that such unearthly creatures have existed— but what does out own experience say in answer to books?” - the woman in white, wilkie collins
“it is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.” - the magician’s elephant, kate dicamillo
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“was never true love loved in vain
for truest love is highest gain.
no art can make it: it must spring
where elements are fostering.
so in heaven’s spot and hour
springs the little native flower;
downward root and upward eye,
shapen by the earth and sky.”
middlemarch, george eliot
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“he learned the most important part of the language that all the world spoke— the language that everyone on earth was capable of understanding in their heart. it was love.” - the alchemist, paulo coelho
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“i remembered you with my soul clenched
in that sadness of mine that you know.
where were you then?
who else was there?
saying what?
why will the whole of love come on me suddenly
when i am sad and feel you are far away?”
excerpt from “we have lost even,” pablo neruda
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“i love you much (most beautiful darling)
more than anyone on the earth and i
like you better than everything in the sky
—sunlight and singing welcome your coming
although winter may be everywhere
with such a silence and such a darkness
noone can quite begin to guess
(except my life) the true time of year—
and if what calls itself a world should have
the luck to hear such singing (or glimpse such
sunlight as will leap higher than high
through gayer than gayest someone’s heart at your each
nearness) everyone certainly would (my
most beautiful darling) believe in nothing but love”
ee cummings
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“having purified your souls by your obedience to the truth for a sincere brotherly love, love one another earnestly from a pure heart, since you have been born again, not of perishable seed but of imperishable, through the living and abiding word of God; for
‘all flesh is like grass
and all its glory like the flower of grass.
the grass withers,
and the flower falls,
but the word of the Lord remains forever.’”
1 peter 1:22-25
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“but i always think that the best way to know God is to love many things. love a friend, a wife, something, what-ever you like, and you will be on the right way to knowing more about it, that is what i say to myself. but one must with a lofty and serious intimate sympathy, with strength, with intelligence, and one must always try to know deeper, better and more. that leads to God, that leads to unwavering faith.” - letters of vincent van gogh
get over your hill and see what you find there
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“you must write every single day of your life … . you must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads … . may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. and out of that love, remake a world” - zen in the art of writing, ray bradbury
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“plunge into the depths of divine love with abandon.” - william still
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