Quotes About Devotion

a Magellan loyalist, he resisted the temptation to hear or repeat any ill concerning his beloved captain.

Ferdinand Magellan never thought of himself as anything other than a devout Catholic.

Allâh as the Beloved in Sûfî literature, the ma'shûq, is always depicted with female iconography.

Lovers 'devour' one another.

I wanted to contribute my time, myself, my knowledge, my love, because Haiti is my everything.

Here is the truth about being a nerd. You don't have to be an expert in something, you just have to be passionate. There is no test and no application. Only a love of a thing that is the best.

Finding someone you love and who loves you back is a wonderful, wonderful feeling. But finding a true soul mate is an even better feeling. A soul mate is someone who understands you like no other, loves you like no other, will be there for you forever, no matter what. They say that nothing lasts forever, but I am a firm believer in the fact that for some, love lives on even after we're gone.

True friendship is worth more than can be measured, a quality forever to be treasured. True friends will staunchly stand beside each other, as loyally brother shieldeth brother, remaining firm in spite of war and strife, in poverty or sickness, throughout life. True friendship doth endure while comrades age from boy to youth, from warrior to sage.

I want you and it will be so, While I have life.

Just because we can't be together doesn't mean I don't love you

It was I who was conquered. In just seven nights, that fledgling goddess not only discovered that I had a heart, but she stole it forever, then cradled it in the palm of her hand.

A man will do astonishing things for a woman he is ardent about.

The occasional embrace, a head leaned for just a moment on your shoulder, when what you really wanted more than anything was to press them to you and hold them so tight you fused together and could never be taken apart. It was like training yourself to live on the smell of an apple alone, when what you really wanted was to devour it, to sink your teeth into it and consume it, seeds, core, and all.

She could not, she had thought as she bent to kiss the baby's flushed cheek, have loved this child more if it had come from her own flesh.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her. She would always be

When she spoke of Pauline Hawthorne, her tone was half the adoration of a schoolgirl for a crush, half the adoration of a devotee for a saint. It had not been clear, at first, that it would turn out that way.

Everyone in the Richardson family noticed Izzy's improved demeanor. "She's almost pleasant around you," Lexie told Mia one day. Izzy's adoration for Mia, like everything she did, did not come by halves: there was nothing Izzy wouldn't do for her.

They never discussed it, but both came to understand it as a promise: he would always make sure there was a place for her.

protegía su amistad como un dragón su tesoro: en silencio y con avaricia.

He wanted to twine himself in the tiny curlicues of her handwriting.

Why does a man who is truly in love insist that this relationship must continue and be "lifelong"? Because life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. Who would want to wake up halfway through an operation?

What we desire is not to possess a woman, but to be the only one to possess her.

Te quiero mucho, querida, y te odio, eres para mí literalmente el aire que respiro, si me faltas te maldigo como hace un anegado; me duele físicamente estar lejos de ti; no eres para mí una mujer, eres la misma existencia; donde tú estás está mi casa, todo el resto no es nada.

One of the problems of spiritual searching is that we tend to feel that we can help ourselves purely by reading a lot and practicing by ourselves, not associating ourselves with a particular lineage. Without a teacher to surrender to, without an object of devotion, we cannot free ourselves from spiritual materialism.