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Quotes About Devotion

When one loves one's Art no service seems too hard.
~ O. Henry
To a woman nothing seems quite impossible to the powers of the man she worships.
~ O. Henry
Mato de hambre al amor, para que devore lo que encuentre.
~ Octavio Paz
La primera nota caraterítica del amor es la exlusividad... El amor es individual o más exactamente, interpersonal: queremos únicamente a una persona y le pedimos a esa persona que nos quiera con el mismo afecto exclusivo.
~ Octavio Paz
Así, lo verdaderamente asomboso es la continuidad de nuestra idea del amor, no sus cambios y variaciones... La pasión que los exalta o devora es la misma.
~ Octavio Paz
Grandpa had made the Lord seem so real, I wouldn't of been surprised if he'd said good night to Him. But after a long pause he just said a-men.
~ Olive Ann Burns
Jesus said take up your cross and follow Me, but He didn't ast us to go out and nail ourselves to a board.
~ Olive Ann Burns
Marriage for love is the beautifulest external symbol of the union of souls, marriage without it is the uncleanliest traffic that defiles the world.
~ Olive Schreiner
Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.
~ Oprah Winfrey
I love how they got in the RV and did it for their dog. (The Gayle King Show, May 2010)
~ Oprah Winfrey
When two people love each other as we do, no one can come between them, no one, I said, amazed at the words I was uttering without preparation. Lovers like us, because they know that nothing can destroy their love, even on the worst days, even when they are heedlessly hurting each other in the cruelest , most deceitful ways, still carry in their hearts a consolation that never abandons them. (p.191)
~ Orhan Pamuk
If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Happiness means being close to the one you love, that's all. (Taking immediate possession is not necessary.)
~ Orhan Pamuk
But just like believing in God, falling in love is such a sacred feeling that it leaves you with no room for any other passions.
~ Orhan Pamuk
If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Love is a sacred silence.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Ama aÅŸk? diri tutan ÅŸey imkâns?z olmas?d?r.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Love points the way, empties you of the stuff of life, carries you at last to the mystery of creation.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Him…. If we love someone very much, we know that even if we give him the most valuable thing we have, we know not to expect harm from him. This is what a sacrifice is.
~ Orhan Pamuk
people who make fun of everything can never truly fall in love, nor truly believe in God.
~ Orhan Pamuk
God takes note of His creatures' true intentions. The Lord favors a man who intends to fast during Ramadan over a man who fasts because he can't find food to eat anyway. Because one of them means it, while the other one doesn't.
~ Orhan Pamuk
The Holy Guide reminded him that in Islam labor was a form of prayer.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Now he knew what it was that he wanted to tell Istanbul and write on its walls. It was both his public and his private view; it was what his heart intended as much as what his words had always meant to say. He said it to himself: "I have loved Rayiha more than anything in this world.
~ Orhan Pamuk
Oh how I burned with a love such as they describe in those books we so cherish and adore.
~ Orhan Pamuk