My affection for you is not my problem.

If life is for living , then I live mine for you, if life is for giving, then I give mine to you, if hearts are for beating, then mine beats for you.

Simple minded people do things like gossip, lie, spread rumors, and cause troubles. But, I know you’re more intelligent.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

I want to be with you, Demetria. Go on dates, have sex and pointless arguments, figure out why you like to eat rabbit food, be the person you call first when you’ve had a bad...

How could he convey to someone who’d never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its...

I love you and it’s getting worse.

[I]f the name of wife appears more sacred and more valid, sweeter to me is ever the word friend, or, if thou be not ashamed, concubine … And thou thyself wert not wholly unmindful of...

I don’t want to talk to anyone, lest I squander your words’ echo, which ripples like a shine over mine and lends their sound a richness.

The animating fire of life is merely a total devotion to living.

It’s amazing how people can find all the mistakes in the world concerning another person, but look into the mirror every day without making changes within. Stop looking down your nose at others, What does...

Death doesn’t end our devotion. It only makes it stronger.

That’s my sweetheart in there. Wherever she is, that’s where my home is.

The yogi can relate to his Beloved in the form of a personal relationship-as a friend, a child, a spouse. He can cherish God in traditional religious performances–honoring saints, holy sites, and scriptures. He can...

There is difference when someone says ‘Love You’ and when they ‘I Love You’. The word ‘I’ saws the worthiness and devotion in what you are saying.

I can’t be the center of your world, Kieli; it just won’t do. I mean, if you stay like this, I wouldn’t be able to go anywhere. I’ll never be able to leave you behind...

But inside is my Emmy. She remembers all our adventures together. She knows that for a short time, we had it all.

I would give you my soul in a blackberry pie; and a knife to cut it with.

Goodbye, Room.” I wave up at Skylight. “Say goodbye,” I tell Ma. “Goodbye, Room.”Ma says it but on mute.I look back one more time. It’s like a crater, a hole where something happened. Then we...

I know I’m a bad bargain. But I’m begging you to have me anyway. Because I want a chance to make you as happy as you make me. I want to build a life with...

The longing to behold this pre-established harmony [of phenomena and theoretical principles] is the source of the inexhaustible patience and perseverance with which Planck has devoted himself … The state of mind which enables a...

I’ll find you. There is no place in this world you can hide from me. I’m watching.Love, Dimitri

When the love-led man had ceased from his labors Bathsheba came and looked him in the face. ‘Gabriel, will you stay on with me?’ she said, smiling winningly, and not troubling to bring her lips...

I may not be the kind of person you want me to, but I will always be there for you.

Moral obligations verses Legal obligations. Legally, you must abide by the laws of the land or face the consequences of being fined, imprisoned or both. Moral obligations tend to lean more towards a spiritual nature...

For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.

Sex and love they choose the different paths. Love always leads to devotion, sacrifice, and dedication, which are forms of insanity and madness; but sex it is always about comfort, pleasure and power.

The heart-knot is full of the darkness of ignorance, and it is illusory. When this knot snaps and opens, consciousness, like the sky, surges undividedly, leading to a clear and enduring peace in which the...

Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret,and in exchange gain the Ocean.Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor,and in the arms of the Sea be secure.Who indeed should be so fortunate?An Ocean wooing...

Devotion gradually progresses to higher levels. . . . One type goes to God and asks Him to remove his suffering. Another one will ask for money or material things. A third will request liberation...

How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you...

WE ARE the creators of the seeds that we have planted in the past — whether they were happiness, comfort, abundance, prosperity, family, children, ideas, or even thoughts — that are giving birth into our...

If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy’s trenches, and if, once in this crater,...

To think I need a gun to protect against those who’d kill me for being Muslim … It’s too bad they don’t know about my true religion of noodling – a reason to get their...

Should God create another Eve, and IAnother Rib afford, yet loss of theeWould never from my heart; no no, I feelThe Link of Nature draw me: Flesh of Flesh,Bone of my Bone thou art, and...

Spiritual literature can be a great aid to an aspirant, or it can be a terrible hindrance. If it is used to inspire practice, motivate compassion, ad nourish devotion, it serves a very valuable purpose....

Love is immune to whatever circumstance.

And it is a strange thing about love… it is that it can take a strength that would seem otherwise insignificant and transform it into a hardly quenchable power.

My angel,” I whisper to her, reminding her who she is to me.

And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple – everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier...

One thing I’ve learnt about humans: you can’t judge their strength by the size of their actions, but by the devotion of an act, no matter how small.

If the sum of living be love’s fee,Tremble. You are my one eternity.

…you have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you’ve changed the view from my window!…

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy...

He was like the other half of myself,’ says Boris…Ulrich says, ‘You haven’t lost {him}, you know. I don’t know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know...

What moved me was the theme of the harmony which is born only of sacrifice, the twofold experience of love. It’s not a question of mutual love: what nobody seems to understand is that love...

Quiet moments bring you closer to God. It’s your silent time within your own private sanctuary. People have so many things to talk about, worry about, think about, without giving themselves peace within. Quiet moments...

I thought all I had to do to get you back was kill off your so-called mother and that little girl. No, I also pondered eating you alive. I imagined drinking all your blood and...

In the whole history of the world there is but one thing that money cannot buy…to wit–the wag of a dog’s tail.