#ash

I speak of the old Japan, because out of the ashes of the old Japan there has risen a new Japan. ↗

— Shigeru Yoshida

#because #i #japan #new #old

I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it. ↗

— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#ashamed #because #had #i #i am

Best thing that ever happened to me, that shredded washer," he whispered. "Too bad I didn't know what a washer was or I would have shredded it myself," I whispered back and he burst out laughing. ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#law-man #mara #mitch #dreams

It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash. ↗

— Fred Woodworth

#civilians #combat #get #healthy #healthy way

We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done. ↗

— Zev Yaroslavsky

#easy #forces #marshal #mean #our

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#age

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#born #fashion-designer #life #lifestyle #live

Fat-bashing in all its varied forms–criticism, exclusion, shaming, fat talk, self-deprecation, jokes, gossip, bullying–is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice. From a very young age, before they can walk away or defend themselves, women are taught that they are how they look, not what they do or what they know. (1) ↗

— Robyn Silverman

#fat-bashing #girls #overweight #prejudice #self-esteem

When [beauty pornography is] aimed at men, its effect is to keep them from finding peace in sexual love. The fleeting chimera of the airbrushed centerfold, always receding before him, keeps the man destabilized in pursuit, unable to focus on the beauty of the woman--known, marked, lined, familiar—-who hands him the paper every morning. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#aging #beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics

Dare we care at all about current fashions if that means reducing our ability to help hungry neighbors? How many more luxuries should we buy for ourselves and our children when others are dying for lack of bread? ↗

— Ron Sider

#christianity #compassion #fashion #hunger #luxury