Quotes About Devotion

I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart).

Be of love (a little) more careful than of everything.

Ich trage Dein Herz bei mir. Ich trage es in meinem Herzen.

loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.

I think you're beautiful, the only beautiful person I've ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

The opposite of passion is not virtue but routine. - Daphne with her Thighs in Bark

Who we love above all else is who we worship, and who we worship controls us.

There was one slight, desperate chance, and that I decided I must take--it was for Dejah Thoris, and no man has lived who would not risk a thousand deaths for such as she.

To lose the only creature in all his world who ever had manifested love and affection for him was the greatest tragedy he had ever known.

Twenty years have intervened; for ten of them I lived and fought for Dejah Thoris and her people, and for ten I have lived upon her memory.

We all loved him, and our slaves fairly worshipped the ground he trod.

So glorious does love transfigure its object~Tarzan

nothing is too good for the object of their adoration as long as he maintains his position by repeated examples of his skill, strength, and courage.

No human mother could have shown more unselfish and sacrificing devotion than did this poor, wild brute for the little orphaned waif whom fate had thrown into her keeping. At

They yoked themselves to a car and drew her all the long way through dust and heat. Everyone admired their filial piety when they arrived and the proud and happy mother standing before the statue prayed that Hera would reward them by giving them the best gift in her power. As she finished her prayer the two lads sank to the ground. They were smiling and they looked as if they were peacefully asleep but they were dead. (Biton and Cleobis)

I need you for however long you want me.

Should I come to you, Father, with anything that made me ashamed? What do I matter? What's honour to me? My honour is to keep her from harm and from grief. I have no other; I want none.

It was the difference between walking with a stranger and walking with your heartmate. It was the difference between working for duty and working for love.

Once while Edith was visiting the cathedral of Frankfurt, a woman with a market basket entered and knelt down in one of the pews to pray briefly. This was something entirely new to her, leaving as deep an impression as the university lectures.

To speak to Him thus is easier by nature for woman than for man because a natural desire lives in her to give herself completely to someone. When she has once realized that no one other than God is capable of receiving her completely for Himself and that it is sinful theft toward God to give oneself completely to one other than Him, then the surrender is no longer difficult and she becomes free of herself.

I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.

Marriage is one long sacrifice.

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.