#vic

Why don't people ask us about our hope? The answer is probably that we look as if we hope in the same things they do. Our lives don't look like they are on the Calvary road, stripped down for sacrificial love, serving others with the sweet assurance that we don't need to be rewarded in this life. ↗

— John Piper

#hope #life #sacrifice #service #life

To love a woman for her virtues is meaningless. She's earned it, it's a payment, not a gift. But to love her for her vices is a real gift, unearned and undeserved. To love her for her vices is to defile all virtue for her sake - and that is a real tribute of love, because you sacrifice your conscience, your reason, your integrity and your invaluable self-esteem. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#sacrifice #vices #virtue #love

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything for you." --Manilyn Monroe "If you make a woman cry for a lot of times, you are giving her permission not to diminish her love for you. ↗

— Rain in the Sun

#relationship-advice #love

There I sat, in the wreckage of my apartment, in the wreckage of my life – no love, no prospects, a gnawing sense of existential futility along with the certainty that a better life was being lived by everyone else ↗

— William Lashner

#life

Flirting is a "controversial art form" that leaves the intended either flattered, infatuated, creeped out or getting a restraining order. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#humor #art

The art of advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself. ↗

— Frank Tyger

#art

...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news. ↗

— M.F.K. Fisher

#food #art

hidup bukanlah soal memoles kilau kulit sepatu, kawan tapi ke mana jejak-jejak sepatumu pernah berpijak ↗

— Stebby Julionatan

#love #service-help-blessings #love

The night before I married you your father made me promise to always take care of you.” I laughed a little, easily able to picture my tall, burly father cornering the young knight I had fallen in love with. “To the best of my ability I have kept that promise.” I laid my hand on his chest to comfort the tension that rippled through his muscles. “You have, Lance,” I assured him. He took my hand in his and turned very serious. “No, I haven’t. I haven’t provided you with everything you need. ↗

— Derendrea

#erotic-fantasy #explicit-erotica #historical-erotica #victorian-erotica #love

Love is a selfless service to mankind like a showcase done by the twinkling stars in beautiful nightly sky. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#mankind #service #sky #stars #beauty