#eros

When the Prophet (pbuh) showed generosity, he expected nothing in return. Many rich men, especially kings, give charity, hoping not for a monetary return, but instead for respect, love, admiration, loyalty, or maybe even just an obsequious kiss on the hand. The Prophet (pbuh) expected none of these things. Or described in the words of a poet: ~ You see him, when you go to him, with a cheerful expression on his face, Making it seem that you are the one giving him that which you ask for.~ ↗

— Ai'd Al Qarni

#prophet-muhammad-pbuh #love

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#compassion #generosity #compassion

You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with being in love. ↗

— Shanora Williams

#eros #helena-zane #in-love #levi #sacred

Everything was illuminated. Everything was connected. Everything was one. Everything was love. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#dark-eros #illuminated #karma #love #love

The full moon cast an eerie glow through thick ancient dark woods. In the shadows around a tree, the serial killer ran his knife lovingly over Chelsea’s trussed dead body. She lay, as if posed for a photo, wearing only bloody pink underpants. ↗

— H. Raven Rose

#dead-body #full-moon #serial-killer #love

If women are the earliest sources of emotional caring and physical nurture for both female and male children, it would seem logical, from a feminist perspective at least, to pose the following questions: whether the search for love and tenderness in both sexes does not originally lead toward women; why in fact women would ever redirect that search; why species-survival, the means of impregnation, and emotional/erotic relationships should ever have become so rigidly identified with each other; and why such violent strictures should be found necessary to enforce women's total emotional, erotic loyalty and subservience to men. ↗

— Adrienne Rich

#subservience #women #love

Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows Proposition 8 does nothing more than enshrine in the California constitution the notion that opposite-sex couples are superior to same-sex couples. ↗

— Vaughn Walker

#discrimination #gay-rights #heterosexuality #homosexuality #law

A wise person is like a smoothly polished rock: it takes time to become either. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#polished #rock #smooth #wisdom #wise

Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#around #being #compassion #generosity #means

I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#generosity #personal-growth #spirituality #forgiveness