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Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down. ↗

— Drew Barrymore

#beautiful #better #delicious #down #hands

Who we are and how we engage with the world are much stronger predictors of how our children will do than what we know about parenting. ↗

— Brené Brown

#inspirational-attitude #parenting #self-help #attitude

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of Paradise and the dread of Hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but I want nothing more. ↗

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#death #inspirational #life #beauty

Together, they would watch everything that was so carefully planned collapse, and they would smile at the beauty of destruction. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#destruction #failure #beauty

The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#death #poetry #women #beauty

To die on a dying Earth - I'd live, if only to weep. ↗

— Joanna Russ

#earth #home #love #death

His death didn't concern him. It was Sunshine he couldn't allow to die. ↗

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

#love #death

You could be together forever, but one of you is going to have to go first. I want it to last. I love him and I want it to stay. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#forever #love #death

From that moment our love became sad, and sadness is a disease which gives the death-blow to affection. ↗

— Giacomo Casanova

#sadness #death

Alexander, of whom men tell many legends, lived by his own. Achilles must have Patroklos. He might love his Briseis; but Patroklos was the friend till death. At their tombs in Troy, Alexander and Hephaistion had sacrificed together. Wound Patroklos, and Achilles will have your blood. ↗

— Mary Renault

#the-persian-boy #death