Quotes About Devotion

Then, his odd collie sense had told him that for some reason this staggering and hiccuping creature was not the master whom he knew and loved. This man was strangely different from the Link Ferris whom Chum knew. Puzzled, the dog had halted and had stood irresolute.

He knew, as by revelation, that his adoring dog now shunned him because Link was drunk. From the first, Chum's look of utter worship and his eagerly happy obedience had been a joy to Link. The subtly complete change in his worshiper's demeanor jarred sharply on the man's raw nerves. He felt vaguely unclean—shamed.

Gently, the Master called him downstairs and across the living room, and put him out of the house. For, after all, a shaggy eighty-pound dog is an inconvenience stretched across a sickroom doorsill. Three minutes later, Lad had made his way through an open window into the cellar and thence upstairs; and was stretched out, head between paws, at the threshold of the Mistress' room.

Perhaps the stout little heart quivered just a bit, if memory went back to his home kennel and to the rowdy throng of brothers and sisters and most of all, to the soft furry mother against whose side he had nestled every night since he was born. But if so, Lad was too valiant to show homesickness by so much as a whimper. And, assuredly, this House of Peace was infinitely better than the miserable crate wherein he had spent twenty horrible and jouncing and smelly and noisy hours.

The dog alone, Link spelled out, has pierced the vast barrier between humans and other beasts, and has ranged himself, willingly and joyously, on the side of Man. For Man's sake the dog will not only starve and suffer and lay down his life, but will betray his fellow quadrupeds. Man is the dog's god.

He was Sunnybank Lad; eighty-pound collie; tawny and powerful; with absurdly tine white forepaws and with a Soul looking out from his deep-set dark eyes. Chum and housemate he was to two human gods; - a dog, alone of all worshipers, having the privilege of looking on the face of his gods and of communing with them without the medium of priest or of prayer.

Affirmation of life is the spiritual act by which man ceases to live unreflectively and begins to devote himself to his life with reverence in order to raise it to its true value. To affirm life is to deepen, to make more inward, and to exalt the will to live.

En el momento en que Leonor invocaba la piedad del cielo para Martín, éste, como los antiguos caballeros, se lanzaba a lo más crudo de la pelea, llevando en su pecho la imagen y en sus labios el nombre de Leonor.

mi innamorai nella sola maniera in cui sono capace di innamorarmi: lentissimamente, cominciando quasi con l'indifferenza e finendo con la passione.

I love my gallant captain with all my heart and soul and might, and never will desert him, while God lets us be together. Oh, Mother, I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!

Y yo caminaría por todos los desiertos de este mundo y aun muerta te seguiría buscando, a ti, que fuiste el lugar del amor.

Tú no amas. Amas en vano, vanamente. Vanidad de enamorada que se vendió a la ausencia. Este amor te devora, tú misma ya no existes.

love me it's your play I say

Your eyes blind everything, even the night, your name written inside me.

I did not love you out or boredom or loneliness or caprice. I loved you because the desire for you was stronger than any happiness.

Non ti amo per noia, o per solitudine, o per capriccio. Ti amo perchè il desiderio di te è più forte di qualsiasi felicità.

Con l'idee donna Prassede si regolava come dicono che si deve far con gli amici: n'aveva poche; ma a quelle poche era molto affezionata. Tra le poche, ce n'era per disgrazia molte delle storte; e non eran quelle che le fossero men care.

Dopo dodici mesi de noviziato, pieni di pentimenti e di ripentimenti, si trovò al momento della professione, al momento cioè in cui conveniva, o dire un no più strano, più inaspettatto, più scandaloso che mai, o ripetere un sí tante volte detto; lo ripeté, e fu monaca per sempre.

quando hanno nel cuore uno scapestrato (ed è lì che inclinano sempre), non se lo staccan più.

So," he said finally. "You love me." "You loved me first.

She had that way of looking at him that made him feel like he'd built the world for her and given it to her as a gift just that morning

With all I have," he whispered solemnly. "For the rest of my life.

I'm here, my love,"...

Love does not forget!