Inspirational Prose
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Atticus Poetry, Love Her Wild
Does the sun promise to shine?No, but it will—even behind the darkest clouds,and no promisewill make it shine longer or brighterfor that is its fate,to burn until it can burn no more.To love you is not my promisebut my fate—to… Read More »
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Ogden Nash
How wise I am to have instructed the butlerto instruct the first footman to instruct the secondfootman to instruct the doorman to order my carriage;I am about to volunteer a definition of marriage.Just as I know that there are two… Read More »
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Let love be your shelter.The world is noisy and confusing at times,So make a home that is a haven, a peaceful place where you canlisten to your hearts and savour the comfortable closeness you share. No matter how busy your… Read More »
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Nick Cave, The Red Hand Files
I’m 17 years old, what can you tell me about love?MAURO, LEUVEN, BELGIUM How do I not have my heart broken?JENNY, PARIS, FRANCE Dear Mauro and Jenny, The surest way to avoid a broken heart is to love nothing and… Read More »
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Love isn’t always perfect. It isn’t a fairytale or a storybook. And it doesn’t always come easy. Love is overcoming obstacles, facing challenges, fighting to be together, holding on and never letting go. It is a short word, easy to… Read More »
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Love is awful. It’s awful. It’s painful. It’s frightening. It makes you doubt yourself, judge yourself, distance yourself from the other people in your life. It makes you selfish. It makes you creepy, makes you obsessed with your hair, makes… Read More »
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Most people get married believing a myth that marriage is a beautiful box full of all the things they have longed for; Companionship, intimacy, friendship etc … The truth is, that marriage at the start is an empty box, you… Read More »
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Sooner or later we begin to understand that love is more than verses on valentines and romance in the movies. We begin to know that love is here and now, real and true, the most important thing in our lives.… Read More »
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Hilary T. Smith
People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a… Read More »
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Daniel Kraus
Unable to perceive the shape of you, I find you all around me. Your presence fills my eyes with your love, it humbles my heart, for you are everywhere. Read More »
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My God, I hope you find love. And I don’t just mean that in regards to someone you wrap your tired bones around at night. I mean that I hope you find love in every aspect of your life. I… Read More »
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Anon
Maybe. Maybe…We are supposed to meet the wrong people before meeting the right one so that, when we finally meet the right person, we will know how to be grateful for that gift Maybe…it is true that we don’t know… Read More »