Quotes About Devotion

Whenever Lisa kisses me I feel like I'm levitating. It's a feeling I was never able to forget when we were apart and something I will never get sick of for as long as I live. Maybe even longer.

Faith," I said. "What's that?" "It's believing in something you can't see, hear, or feel.

Essa mulher que a cada amor proclama A miséria e a grandeza de quem ama E guarda a marca dos meus dentes nela. Essa mulher é um mundo! – uma cadela Talvez... – mas na moldura de uma cama Nunca mulher nenhuma foi tão bela!

It isn't love if it isn't everything.

My passionate puritan!

Desire comes easy to a man, but it soon flickers out if love doesn't light the flame.

Never again could she give herself to any man as she had given herself to her husband; completely, as though the world might end before morning came.

Drink, my angel; everything I have inside me is yours, soak it up through the paper, through the sleeve of my coat. Suck my blood out of the hollow of my elbow where you are lying, where you are keeping warm. It's just as you please, it will always be just as you please from now on.

I love it, it devours me. I adore it without illusions.

Faithful Achates.

Each person, makes their own terrible passion their god.

Love conquers all; therefore, let us submit to love.

O ye Sun and Moon, oh ye beans and roses, oh ye jigs and juleps, Bless ye the Lord, Praise Him and Magnify Him Forever. Amen.

As long as the focus is on God the style of the music is irrelevant.

Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.

That singleness of attachment (Nishthâ) to a loved object, without which no genuine love can grow, is very often also the cause of the denunciation of everything else.

Take up one idea Make that one idea your life Think of it Dream of it Live on that idea Let the brain, muscles, nerves every part of your body be full of that idea and just leave every other idea alone

forms and ceremonials, though absolutely necessary for the progressive soul, have no other value than taking us on to that state in which we feel the most intense love to God.

Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love — I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.

We plainly see, therefore, that Bhakti is a series or succession of mental efforts at religious realisation beginning with ordinary worship and ending in a supreme intensity of love for Ishvara.

This book is for Randall Jarrell, the man who believed we are devoted to the act of making literature because it leads to the act of reading.

Si mi madre no era capaz de identificar en otra mujer reacciones a un marido o un amante que duplicasen las suyas, no lo consideraba amor. Y el amor, decía, lo era todo. La vida de una mujer estaba determinada por el amor. Cualquier indicio que probase lo contrario —y las pruebas, de hecho, abundaban— era descartado e ignorado por sistema, tachado de su discurso y vetado por su intelecto.

Felicity was more romantic. She's waiting for her lover. He's a sailor and she's watching for his ship to come in. Nobody's dared tell her it's been wrecked and her lover is at the bottom of the sea. She'll go on waiting and waiting until her red hair turns as white as his bones- Good.

I've always been mad about cats.