#am

I am so touched at how my family has embraced my situation. They don't even know this child, and they already love her. ↗

— Nia Vardalos

#family

I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#family

What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? ↗

— William Shakespeare

#theatre #food

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people. ↗

— Swami Bhaskarananda

#christianity #faith #hinduism #islam #life

The Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, said, When Allah loves a people, He tries them. ↗

— Leila Aboulela

#islam #spirituality #faith

Love them to death. Sookie to Pam ↗

— Charlaine Harris

#death

When you forget yesterday and embrace the new vision of what you are to become through the eyes of your best friend, you have found a new sister standing by the open door that was once closed in your heart. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#friendship #girlfriends #new-family #family

I think I rescued myself. ↗

— Donna K. Childree

#adventure-travel #family-relationships #siblings #family

Family isn’t something that’s supposed to be static, or set. People marry in, divorce out. They’re born, they die. It’s always evolving, turning into something else. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#family

If I love you, I will carry for you all your pain, I will assume for you all your debts (in every definition of the word), I will protect you from your own insecurity, I will protect upon you all sorts of good qualities that you have never actually cultivated in yourself and I will buy Christmas presents for your entire family. I will give you the sun and the rain, and if they are not available, I will give you a sun check and a rain check. I will give you all this and more, until I get so exhausted and depleted that the only way I can recover my energy is by becoming infatuated with someone else. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family