#hi

Children love and want to be loved and they very much prefer the joy of accomplishment to the triumph of hateful failure. Do not mistake a child for his symptom. ↗

— Erik Erikson

#child #children #failure #hateful #his

We should fall in love. Love each other enough to shit at the same time on the same toilet. ↗

— Darnell Lamont Walker

#love #shit #love

Custom reconciles us to everything. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#everything #reconciles #us

I loved Trevor wholly. In all the good ways that made me feel alive and special and important. But also, in the bad ways. The ways that shut me off from others and left me alone with my pain. The ways that had me keep secrets. I loved Trevor in all the ways that I thought mattered, even though I knew that I didn’t. ↗

— Steph Campbell

#breakups #love #relationships #love

I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy. ↗

— Coolio

#guy #i #innocent #nice #nice guy

Kiss me twice, I am schizophrenic .. Kiss me ten times, I am obsessive! ↗

— أحمد عمارة

#kiss #laugh #love #obsession #schizophrenia

A hedgehog? And just how does a hedgehog make love?" he demanded. No, I thought. I won't. I will not. But I did. "Very carefully," I replied, giggling helplessly. So now we know just how old that one is, I thought. ↗

— Diana Gabaldon

#love

If there's delight in love, 'Tis when I see that heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me. ↗

— William Congreve

#delight #heart #i #i see #love

From this arises the following question: whether it is better to be loved than feared, or the reverse. The answer is that one would like to be both the one and the other, but because they are difficult to combine, it is far better to be loved than feared if you cannot be both. ↗

— Niccolò Machiavelli

#love #machiavelli #love

I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ." --Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling ↗

— Brother Andrew

#god #highest-calling #living-for-christ #purpose #sacrifice