#pta

Loving isn't about selecting only the good parts. It's about taking the whole and loving the lot. ↗

— Santa Montefiore

#accepting #love #love-story #lovers #loving

Don’t let affluence make you impoverished of God. ↗

— Jon Bloom

#christianity #love-of-money #poverty #temptation #love

Accepting the thought, emotion or sensation at face value is an act that is both loving and liberating. ↗

— Heidi DuPree

#love

No one will love you exactly the way you want them to-you just have to let them do their best. ↗

— Reddit

#love #tolerance #love

Acceptance is to love and embrace everything that we find within ourselves like a mother embraces her child. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#child #love #meditation #mother #spirituality

I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that I do not trust that life takes care of me. But now I discover a silent place in the depth of my inner being, where I am already one with life, where I am OK as I am. It is also a silent inner place of healing and wholeness, where I can find a love and acceptance for that which is imperfect within myself. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#healing #life #love #meditation #silence

She followed the melting flakes, revelling in the thickness, the softness of his hair, which he wore long. She had loved to run her fingers through it before. Tug at it in mounting pleasure. Snuggle into it in the shared intimacy of their loving. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #love

I’m going to cut you,” Georgiana murmured. “I’m going to mark that face of yours and show him what I’m capable of.” “He’d still love me,” Elizabeth whispered. “It’s a concept you could never understand, Georgiana. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#temptation-and-twilight #love

What an unilateral life, when from the material of a renunciation, we must fashion something we love. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#resignation #love

For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than two decades, I have made a choice to be straight. After all, it’s as easy as making a choice, isn’t it? This culture has made sure that I know that. Anyone who is anything other than straight was just someone deceived by the devil. He is unnatural. He is confused. He is mistaken. He is weak. He can control it if he desires to control it. Such a compelling and ongoing argument has been made that I have always trusted it. I believed that if I hid it long enough, and ran from it long enough, and refused to acknowledge it for long enough, I could indeed succeed at living up to their decrees. I believed that I could force myself to never be anything else. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#bisexuality #coming-out #homosexuality #love #pressure