#loving

I don't want to be reincarnated, that's for sure. When you've had rewarding experiences in your life - a loving family, friends - you don't need additional reassurances that you're going to do something with a new cast of characters. I'd just as soon pass. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#cast #characters #experiences #family #friends

And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. ↗

— Venerable Bede

#attain #before #day #delight #drink

I’m just happy to have experienced life; to have had a beautiful son and to have loved. ↗

— Aaron B. Powell

#beauty #boy #child #children #dead

He broke away from my mouth and trailed his lips down the front of my throat. I felt his lips close around my scars. He kissed away their ugliness. His lips parted in tingling butterfly kisses that drained the strength from my knees. I realized he was mouthing words against my skin. Not words. Just one word. Mine. ↗

— Rose Christo

#possessiveness #love

Something I'd like to be perfect at? ... Loving you,' I said. The words climbed from my mouth. 'I'd want to be perfect at loving you. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#perfect #love

But I do know we’re deficient in some way. We are too involved in materialistic things, and they don’t satisfy us. The loving relationships we have, the universe around us, we take these things for granted. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life #loving-relationship #materialism #satisfaction #truth

She loved him, even though it was so hard to love anybody else after loving my dad. I think I knew this before she did. ↗

— Margaret McMullan

#hard-to-love-anybody-else #it-was-so-hard #knew-this-before-she-did #love #loved

... Who knows what death, anxiety of the living, Who knows what loneliness, end of the loving I could say to myself of the love (I had): Let it not be immortal, since it is flame But let it be infinite while it lasts. ↗

— Vinicius de Moraes

#living #loving #death

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. ↗

— Anais Nin

#ago #father #i #long #long time

Gays are some of the nicest, kindest, most loving people in the world. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#kindest #loving #most #nicest #people