#sm

The smile of God is victory. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#smile #victory

No one was ever saved because his sins were small; no one was ever rejected on account of the greatness of his sins. Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound. ↗

— Archibald Alexander

#account #because #ever #grace #greatness

I heard your heart beating, you were in the darkness too. So I stayed in the darkness with you. -Cosmic Love ↗

— Florence + the Machine

#love

My boyfriends have all been as stoical as queen's guards. They'd been patient, committed, and dispassionate, and I'd had to really debase myself to extract any emotion, either grin or grimace, from them. ↗

— Koren Zailckas

#ex-boyfriends #love #relationships #stoicism #love

The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#archetype #children #dreams #psychology #symbolism

Love the people who love you back. ↗

— Laura Ruby

#smart #wise #love

Then I saw her smile so close to my eye that there was nothing to see but the smile and the thought came into my head that I’d never been inside a smile before. Who’d have thought being inside a smile would be so ancient and so modern both at once ↗

— Ali Smith

#boy #girl #love #smith #love

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#meditation #love

Their voices were melodious and unsentimental, almost to the point where a somewhat more denominational man than myself might, without straining, have experienced levitation. ↗

— J.D. Salinger

#love

No estoy enamorado de ti. Ni siquiera despiertas en mí una de esas nostalgias aberrantes que los hombres de mi edad sienten con la proximidad de una vida joven: eres un ser inferior, Iris Mateluna, un trozo de existencia primaria que rodea a un útero reproductor tan central a tu persona que todo el resto de tu ser es cáscara superflua. ↗

— José Donoso

#love #machismo #senilidad #sex #love