Quotes of: Love-and-friendship Keyword

Raven had been shunned and abandoned throughout his life. Friends often came and went without a word or worse, they toyed with his emotions and shared his secrets with those he chose to distrust. His loneliness was inevitable and his secrets were dam...

Eyes Like Blue Fire

Something snapped inside her. “Of course I’m afraid! Relationships do bad things to me.” He started to respond, but the pain had gone on long enough, and she didn’t want to hear it. “You know what I want? I want peace. I want a good job and...

Ain't She Sweet

I was stunned. I pulled the phone away and looked quizzically at the hole-punched speaker. Aside from the blood obligation to be my sister's maid of honor, it had never occured to me that I would get asked to be in anyone's wedding. I thought we had ...

I Was Told There'd Be Cake

In our more arrogant moments, the sin of pride—or superbia, in Augustine's Latin formulation—takes over our personalities and shuts us off from those around us. We become dull to others when all we seek to do is assert how well things are going f...

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Now, what happens if you eliminate anything from the Bible that offends your sensibility and crosses your will? If you pick and choose what you want to believe and reject the rest, how will you ever have a God who can contradict you? You won't! You'l...

The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism

That bar also delineated the realm of sweat and hourly wage, the working world that college was educating me to leave. Rewards in that realm were few. No one congratulated you for clocking out. Your salary was spare. The Legion served as recompense. ...

The Liars' Club

That's what scares me the most, Paul. That I'll just pass through life and all the people I know will just disappear, without a trace, without me ever telling them how much they mean to me, no matter how small the time spent was or how great the frie...

Say It Ain't So

Though solitude, endured too long, Bids youthful joys too soon decay, Makes mirth a stranger to my tongue, And overclouds my noon of day; When kindly thoughts that would have way, Flow back discouraged to my breast; I know there is, though far away, ...

Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell

I wish that all nations may recover and retain their independence; that those which are overgrown may not advance beyond safe measures of power, that a salutary balance may be ever maintained among nations, and that our peace, commerce, and friendshi...

Writings: Autobiography/Notes on the State of Virginia/Public & Private Papers/Addresses/Letters

It seems like as we stand there I’m watching my whole life with Hana, our entire friendship, fall away: sleepover parties with forbidden midnight bowls of popcorn; all the times we rehearsed for Evaluation Day, when Hana would steal a pair of her f...

Delirium

Reporter: And what, in the opinion of Your Highness, is the outlook for friendship among nations? Princess Ann: I have every faith in it... as I have faith in relations between people. Joe Bradley: May I say, speaking for my own... press service: we ...

Roman Holiday

Saying of the Prophet Desire Desire not the world, and God will love you. Desire not what others have, and they will love you.

Caravan of Dreams

True love was about letting go. A daily choice. Knowing the worst about a person and sacrificing for them anyway. Choosing to love.

The Covered Deep

There are two forces in the universe: fear and love. Trust is part of love because it makes you feel safe, and it is only in this state that you are capable of love.

Choosing Clarity: The Path to Fearlessness

Anyone who has physically incarnated on the Earth is energetically connected to the people they love, and to the Earth, indefinitely...

Conduit: A Love Story Before During and After Life

... Chicago divided your heart. Leaving you loving the joint for keeps. Yet knowing it never can love you.

Chicago: City on the Make

If our two loves be one, or, thou and I Love so alike, that none do slacken, none can die.

The Complete English Poems

Love is...freeing. Love is all encompassing; it has the power to save us from unimaginable forces of darkness. All we have to do is accept it, give it, live it.

Corruption of the Soul

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

love doesn't have to feel good in order to exist.

Cupidity: 50 Stupid Things People Do For Love And How To Avoid Them

My love for Neo-Tokyo is a bulbous mass of post-human organic circuitry. Cyperpunk is my mother tongue. My love is a man-machine interface gun.

Dawn of the Algorithm