Inspirational Prose
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Obergefell v Hodges
This reading is taken from Justice Anthony Kennedy’s words in the 2015 Obergefell v Hodges case, the ruling that established marriage equality in the United States. Although written for a legal judgement, the passage has become loved around the world… Read More »
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Nayyirah Waheed
I am your friend.a soul for your soula place for your life. homeknow this. sun or water. here or away.we are a lighthouse. we leave. and we stay. Read More »
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Lang Leav
If you came to me with a face I have not seen, with a name I have never heard, I would still know you. Even if centuries separated us, I would still feel you. Somewhere between the sand and the… Read More »
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It’s a love that actually feels really easy. It’s a love with no mixed signals. It’s a love where your happiness makes up so much of theirs. It’s a love where they simply have your best interests at heart. It’s… Read More »
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Bob Marley
If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just… Read More »
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Thomas A Kempis
Love is a great thing, yea, a great and thorough good.By itself it makes that which is heavy light;and it bears evenly all that is uneven.It carries a burden which is no burden;it will not be kept back by anything… Read More »
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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 »