#ice

If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve. ↗

— John Ortberg

#greatness #love #mother-teresa #serve #service

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #generosity #gratitude #service #love

Choose your love. Love your choice. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#love #love

Once there was a tree, and she loved a little boy. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#love

It is very difficult to live among people you love and hold back from offering them advice. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#love #love

If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#reality #sacrifice #selflessness #well-being #love

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#justice #mercy #wickedness #love

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could. ↗

— Lauren Kate

#love #lucinda-price #love

I'm telling you this for one reason and one reason only: No matter how sure you are of someone's love, it's always nice to hear it. ↗

— Mike Gayle

#affirmation #confirmation #love #lovers #nice

If we don’t make out of this alive, Sophie Price, I want you to know that I’ve never loved anyone as much as I love you. You’re it for me. ↗

— Fisher Amelie

#sophie-price #love