#friends

If someone isn't in your definition of "gorgeous" or "beautiful", it doesn't give you the right to call them ugly. ↗

— Abdullah Bashir

#friendship #inspirational #love #beauty

He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it. ↗

— Jessica Fortunato

#love #regret #friendship

The difference for me is I just don't sleep on friends' couches anymore. ↗

— Sean Kinney

#couches #difference #friends #i #just

About 70 percent of the district was new. It was a short amount of time to get to know hundreds and thousands of people. But with the help and support of old friends, we built a grassroots operation organically from the ground up. ↗

— Adam Kinzinger

#amount #built #district #friends #get

When Jesus calls his disciples 'brothers' and 'friends', he is contradicting general Jewish usage and breaking through into a new concept of brotherhood which is not tribal, but open to any person. ↗

— David Kirk

#breaking #brotherhood #brothers #calls #concept

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees. ↗

— Anna Sewell

#friends #horses #orchard #beauty

He pulled the Carstairs family ring from his finger and held it out to Will. "Take it." Will let his eyes drift down toward it, and then up to Jem's face. A dozen awful things he could say, or do, went through his mind. One did not slough off a persona so quickly, he had found. He had pretended to be cruel for so many years that the pretense was still what he reached for first, as a man might absently turn his carriage toward the home he had lived in for all his life, despite the fact that he had recently moved. "You wish to marry me now?" he said, at last. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jem-carstairs #will-herondale #family

You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own. ↗

— Willis Lamb

#affairs #allowing #find #following #friends

Most humbling of all is to comprehend the lifesaving gift that your pit crew of people has been for you, and all the experiences you have shared, the journeys together, the collaborations, births and deaths, divorces, rehab, and vacations, the solidarity you have shown one another. Every so often you realize that without all of them, your life would be barren and pathetic. It would be Death of a Salesman, though with e-mail and texting. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#gratitude #death

During the 1950s, Aristotle Onassis and I formed what grew to be a close friendship and association in several business ventures. ↗

— Paul Getty

#association #business #close #during #formed