#loving

In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#capable #either #fear #feeling #heterosexuality

Of all the music that reached farthest into heaven, it is the beating of a loving heart. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#farthest #heart #heaven #into #loving

We benefit from doing nothing, from going out to play, from giving from the heart and spending time in nature. Most of all we benefit from having healthy, strong, and loving relationships with other people and from exercising the altruistic parts of ourselves. ↗

— Jo Ann Davis

#benefit #doing #exercising #giving #going

You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands. If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed ↗

— Viktor Shklovsky

#book-loving #experience

The way you treat people who are in no position to help you, further you, or benefit you reveals the true state of your heart. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-kind-to-others #grace #heart #helping-others #inner-beauty

In everyone there sleeps. A sense of life lived according to love. To some it means the difference they could make. By loving others, but across most it sweeps. As all they might have done had they been loved. That nothing cures. ↗

— Philip Larkin

#across #been #could #cures #difference

People can be ignorant and still have loving, human qualities. ↗

— Rob Reiner

#human qualities #ignorant #loving #people #qualities

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion. ↗

— Ron Reagan

#buddhist #central #compassion #core #fact

Single ladies, the only thing we need to be rescued from is the notion that we need to be rescued. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-single #life #loving-your-life #loving-yourself #not-settling

Morning time is the foundation of the rest of your day. Rise with a hopeful and loving attitude, seek compassion and kindness, pray, meditate, exercise. ↗

— Martin Suarez

#foundation #kindness #loving #meditate #meditation