#eli

It does good to no woman to be flattered [by a man] who does not intend to marry her; and it is madness in all women to let a secret love kindle within them, which, if unreturned and unknown, must devour the life that feeds it; and, if discovered and responded to, must lead, ignis-fatuus-like, into miry wilds whence there is no extrication. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#flattery #love #secret-love #sense #unavowed-love

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. ↗

— Garrison Keillor

#denying #eye #i #i believe #i believe in

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #regret

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past. ↗

— Michael Simkins

#traveling #education

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#judgement #life #preparation #religion #life

Well, to be honest I think I'm a better short story writer than a novelist. Novels I find very hard, hours and hours, weeks and weeks, of conscious thought - whereas short stories slip out painlessly in a few days. ↗

— Eric Brown

#conscious #conscious thought #days #few #find

To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God's grace means. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#spiritual #life

No matter what happens, you will never lose me, I am forever yours, Kitten, in this life or the next. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#life

you are my life now. this"_he waved a hand dismissively around him at the club-"the fey, everything, it all falls into place once you accept me" -kennan ↗

— Melissa Marr

#melissa-marr #wicked-lovely #life

I have so much to do that I shall spend the first three hours in prayer. ↗

— Martin Luther

#religion #religion