#living

Being alive, if you had to define it, meant emitting a variety of smells ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Then at certain moments I remember one of his words and I suddenly feel the sensual woman flaring up, as if violently caressed. I say the word to myself, with joy. It is at such a moment that my true body lives. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#passion #sensuality #words #love

I want your most vital organ. I want it to be mine. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#heart #jamie-weise #love #love-story #lovers

The point of your life is to point to Him. Whatever you are doing, God wants to be glorified, because this whole thing is His. ↗

— Francis Chan

#life

Satan is so much more in earnest than we are--he buys up the opportunity while we are wondering how much it will cost. ↗

— Amy Carmichael

#satan #satan

You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place. ↗

— Stan Barstow

#love #experience

Zuko: This city is a prison. I don't want to make a life here. Iroh: Life happens wherever you are, whether you make it or not. ↗

— Uncle Iroh

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #life-philosophy #experience

Let us be today’s Christians. Let us not take fright at the boldness of today’s church. With Christ’s light let us illuminate even the most hideous caverns of the human person: torture, jail, plunder, want, chronic illness. The oppressed must be saved, not with a revolutionary salvation, in mere human fashion, but with the holy revolution of the Son of Man, who dies on the cross to cleanse God’s image, which is soiled in today’s humanity, a humanity so enslaved, so selfish, so sinful. ↗

— Oscar A. Romero

#christ #christian-living #god #revolution #salvation

Say yes we live uncertainty And disappointments have to be And everyday we might be facing more And yes we live in desperate times But fading words and shaking rhymes There’s only one thing here worth hoping for With Lucifer beneath you and God above If either one of them asks you what your living of Say love, say for me love ↗

— The Avett Brothers

#love #love

It stands to reason that anyone who learns to live well will die well. The skills are the same: being present in the moment, and humble, and brave, and keeping a sense of humor. (361) ↗

— Victoria Moran

#dying #humility #humor #living #mindfulness