#devotion

I would die for you if you want, but if you really want me to die I won’t. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #love

... your grasp, even in fury, would have a charm for me... ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#fury #love #madness #love

The moment we decide to throw more energy into fighting for our mate than with him, the crack of a fist on the enemy's jaw splits the ears of angels. ↗

— Beth Moore

#love #marriage #love

As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences. ↗

— Barry Unsworth

#consequences #devotion #distasteful #doctrines #economic

My weight fluctuates depending on my mood and my current devotion to my fitness routine. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#depending #devotion #fitness #mood #routine

I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. ↗

— Marguerite Young

#devotion #i #most #poetry #quite

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in - that we do it to God, to Christ, and that's why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#always #beautifully #christ #come #danger

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 walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love #love-at-first-sight #true-love #love

I think he had a strange, passionate devotion to the truth and a horror at what he saw going on. ↗

— Ben Bradlee

#going #had #horror #i #i think

Whoever benefits his enemy with straightforward intention that man's enemies will soon fold their hands in devotion. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#devotion #enemy #fold #hands #his