Camila Avila Quotes

This isn't my life. You are. ~ Claire Contreras

I could kiss her. I could kiss her right now, but what good would that be when I knew it would have to end quickly? I wanted hours with her. Sunrises and sunsets buried between her legs. ~ Claire Contreras

His mouth felt like everything I envisioned heaven and hell must feel like: warm and welcoming, hot and seductive. ~ Claire Contreras

I'd give up my career to chase moments with the right woman. ~ Claire Contreras

If you're at the other end of the chase, it would be impossible for me to be disappointed. ~ Claire Contreras

He was untamed perfection. ~ Claire Contreras

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee? ~ Teresa Of Avila

Let nothing disturb you,
Let nothing frighten you,
All things are passing away:
God never changes.
Patience obtains all things.
Whoever has God lacks nothing;
God alone suffices. ~ Teresa Of Avila

I shouldn't even exist. Neither should they. What's the difference between destroying me and destroying them?" - Lexia Graham ~ Katheryn J. Avila

The "interior castle" of the human soul, as Teresa of Avila called it, has many rooms, and they are slowly occupied by God, allowing us time and room to grow. ~ Dallas Willard

Before a shoot, I'll watch what I eat. During the shoot, I watch what I eat. Afterwards, the first thing I do is go have a steak and French fries. ~ Camila Alves

I cannot understand how humility exists, or can exist, without love, or love without humility, ~ Teresa Of Avila

This young woman," said Diana, "was responsible for the destruction of the Triumvirate's fleet."
"Well, I had a lot of help," Lavinia said.
"I don't understand," I said, turning to Lavinia. "You made all those mortars malfunction?"
Lavinia looked offended. "Well, yeah. Somebody had to stop the fleet. I did pay attention during siege-weapon class and ship-boarding class. It wasn't that hard. All it took was a little fancy footwork."
Hazel finally managed to pick her jaw off the pavement. "Wasn't that hard?"
"We were motivated! The fauns and dryads did great." She paused, her expression momentarily clouding, as if she remembered something unpleasant. "Um…besides, the Nereids helped a lot. There was only a skeleton crew aboard each yacht. Not, like, actual skeletons, but - you know what I mean. Also, look!"
She pointed proudly at her feet, which were now adorned with the shoes of Terpsichore from Caligula's private collection.
"You mounted an amphibious assault on an enemy fleet," I said, "for a pair of shoes."
Lavinia huffed. "Not just for the shoes, obviously." She tap-danced a routine that would've made Savion Glover proud. "Also to save the camp, and the nature spirits, and Michael Kahale's commandos."
Hazel held up her hands to stop the overflow of information. "Wait. Not to be a killjoy - I mean, you did an amazing thing! - but you still deserted your post, Lavinia. I certainly didn't give you permission - "
"I was acting ~ Rick Riordan

We shall advance more by contemplating the Divinity than by keeping our eyes fixed on ourselves, ~ Teresa Of Avila

I saw an angel close by me, on my left side, in bodily form. This I am not accustomed to see, unless very rarely. Though I have visions of angels frequently, yet I see them only by an intellectual vision, such as I have spoken of before. It was our Lord's will that in this vision I should see the angel in this wise. He was not large, but small of stature, and most beautiful
his face burning, as if he were one of the highest angels, who seem to be all of fire: they must be those whom we call cherubim. Their names they never tell me; but I see very well that there is in heaven so great a difference between one angel and another, and between these and the others, that I cannot explain it. ~ Teresa Of Avila

All the way to heaven is heaven. ~ Teresa Of Avila

I fully realize that this gratitude of mine is not in the least a sign of perfection: it must be my nature - I could be suborned with a sardine ... ~ Teresa Of Avila

Do you know when people really become spiritual? It is when they become the slaves of God and are branded with His sign, which is the sign of the Cross, in token that they have given Him their freedom. ~ Teresa Of Avila

For though we know quite well that God is present in all that we do, our nature is such that it makes us lose sight of the fact; but when this favour is granted it can no longer do so, for the Lord, who is near at hand, awakens it. And even the favours aforementioned occur much more commonly, as the soul experiences a vivid and almost constant love for Him whom it sees or knows to be at its side. ~ Teresa Of Avila

If this is how you treat your friends, no wonder you have so many enemies. ~ Teresa Of Avila

The surest way to determine whether one possesses the love of God is to see whether he or she loves his or her neighbor. These two loves are never separated. Rest assured, the more you progress in love of neighbor the more your love of God will increase. ~ Teresa Of Avila

Of the good things they do many will pass unnoticed, or will even not be considered good at all; but they need not fear that any evil or imperfect thing they do will be overlooked. ~ Teresa Of Avila

We cannot know whether we love God, although there may be strong reason for thinking so; but there can be no doubt about whether we love our neighbor or not. Be sure that, in proportion as you advance in fraternal charity, you are increasing your love of God, for His Majesty bears so tender an affection for us that I cannot doubt He will repay our love for others by augmenting, and in a thousand different ways, that which we bear for Him. ~ Teresa Of Avila

From silly devotions and from sour-faced saints, good Lord, deliver us. ~ Teresa Of Avila

i think "i miss you" means even more than "i love you". because you can love a lot of people but there are really just a few you can miss ~ Camila Cabello

It is no small misfortune and disgrace that, through our own fault, we neither understand our nature nor our origin. ~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

Never suppose that either the evil or the good that you do will remain secret, however strict may be your enclosure. ~ Teresa Of Avila

I was flying. My shoulders loosened, my stride opened, my heart banged the base of my throat. I crossed Carnegie and ran up the block waving my arms. I crossed Lexington and ran up the block waving my arms.
A linen-suited woman in her fifties did meet my exultant eye. She looked exultant herself, seeing me from far up the block. Her face was thin and tanned. We converged. Her warm, intelligent glance said she knew what I was doing- not because she herself had been a child but because she herself took a few loose aerial turns around her apartment every night for the hell of it, and by day played along with the rest of the world and took the streetcar. So Teresa of Avila checked her unseemly joy and hung on to the altar rail to hold herself down. The woman's smiling, deep glance seemed to read my own awareness from my face, so we passed on the sidewalk- a beautifully upright woman walking in her tan linen suit, a kid running and flapping her arms- we passed on the sidewalk with a look of accomplices who share a humor just beyond irony. What's a heart for? ~ Annie Dillard

In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy. ~ Camila Alves

Humility, however deep it be, neither disquiets nor troubles nor disturbs the soul; it is accompanied by peace, joy and tranquillity. ~ Teresa Of Avila

I believe, unless I had a new book, I was never happy. ~ Teresa Of Avila

After you die, you wear what you are. ~ Teresa Of Avila

I would never want any prayer that would not make the virtues grow within me. ~ Teresa Of Avila

What a miserable life is this! There is no happiness that is secure and nothing that does not change. ~ Teresa Of Avila

The mind's continual keeping in the presence of God 8 and the concentration of its thoughts on Him would so enrage the fiend that, although he might try the experiment once, he ~ Teresa Of Avila

Since God has given it such great dignity, permitting it to wander at will through the rooms of the castle, from the lowest to the highest. Let it not force itself to remain for very long in the same mansion, even the one of self-knowledge. ~ Teresa Of Avila

It is a great folly to be willing to violate the friendship of God, rather than the law of human friendship. ~ Teresa Of Avila

We know only that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are, those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. ~ Teresa Of Avila

Our body has this defect that, the more it is provided care and comforts, the more needs and desires it finds. ~ Saint Teresa Of Avila

It's okay not to be perfect. Your imperfections are what make you YOU. And at the end of the day, people like real people, flaws and all. At least I do. ~ Camila Cabello

It is true that we cannot be free from sin, but at least let our sins not always be the same. ~ Teresa Of Avila

It is a great advantage for us to be able to consult someone who knows us, so that we may learn to know ourselves. ~ Teresa Of Avila

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila ~ Mark Salzman

Be kind to all and severe to thyself. ~ Teresa Of Avila

These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness isn't next weekend, and it's not last week, it's right now. That was one of the best nights of my life. It felt good to know purpose. I lay in my bunk and I think of all the stories I'm in. I think about all the stories that are in my story. I think about all the stories that are left to be written. And it might be my favorite book yet. ~ Camila Cabello

Anyone who has the habit of speaking before God's majesty as if he were speaking to a slave, careless about how he is speaking, and saying whatever comes into his head and whatever he's learned from saying prayers at other times, in my opinion is not praying. Please, God, may no Christian pray in this way. ~ Teresa Of Avila

It is a good proof and test of our love if we can bear with such faults and not be shocked by them. Others, in their turn, will bear with your faults, which, if you include those of which you are not aware, must be much more numerous. ~ Teresa Of Avila

Love at infancy is the strongest and puriest of all, it is mixed with infatuation and deep happiness. Persistent smile brings out hollow dimples, and persistent frowns brings out hollow wrinkles. ~ Michael Bassey Johnson