#be

Humor has always been important to me. If there is a shield of faith that you can keep up against difficulties, humor is the Teflon coating. ↗

— Laurel Lee

#always #been #difficulties #faith #humor

It's been a roller-coaster ride. But I haven't been diving this well for a while. ↗

— Troy Dumais

#diving #haven #i #ride #roller-coaster

The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. ↗

— Don DeLillo

#eureka-moments #nature #peace #self-knowledge #beauty

I've never concerned myself with the labels people want to put on you. What matters to me is my own estimation. ↗

— Jean Dujardin

#estimation #i #labels #matters #me

I talk to women's groups all over the country and see women struggling with this. The fear of not being accepted, of being different, of not having a man, all make it hard for a woman to do what she really believes is right for her. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#being #being different #believes #country #different

I think we have to be careful about what we label as a prerequisite for spirituality. I don't think you have to know a lot to have a spiritual life, but knowing gives life richness. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#be careful #careful #gives #i #i think

I think it's because most of us talk one way and live another. There are a few people who truly, truly walk the talk. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#because #few #few people #i #i think

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you. ↗

— Olympia Dukakis

#even #friend #love #married #partner

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother. ↗

— Patty Duke

#i #kind #like #mother #position

So, in the end, above ground you must have the Haves, pursuing pleasure and comfort and beauty, and below ground the Have-nots, the Workers getting continually adapted to the conditions of their labour. Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears. Such of them as were so constituted as to be miserable and rebellious would die; and, in the end, the balance being permanent, the survivors would become as well adapted to the conditions of underground life, and as happy in their way, as the Upper-world people were to theirs. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dystopia #prophesy #science-fiction #beauty