#golden

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity. ↗

— John Milton

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Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior. ↗

— Sara Paretsky

#first #get #golden #into #jumped

At that moment, beauty itself struck me as a kind of painful melancholy. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#beauty #melancholy #memoirs-of-a-geisha #beauty

How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#life #love #morality #prolife #life

We all screw up. Everyone makes mistakes. That’s what she did. It was bad judgment, that’s all. You don’t cut off the people you love for mistakes like that. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sydney-sage #the-golden-lily #love

I wish I could take what I'm feeling right now and put it in the water system so everybody could drink it and we would all love each other. ↗

— Jamie Foxx

#love

I can give you a girl’s perspective,” Eve offered with a smile. “I’m totally not into the girl-on-girl thing, but I know an attractive pussy when I see one. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

I actually told him to f**k himself. And that if he needed an ass to paddle, he should look in the mirror. ↗

— Lexi Blake

#lexi-blake #the-men-with-the-golden-cuffs #men

I don’t really think the standard of judgment, the missing link, you spoke of that you find in my stories emerges from any religion but Christianity, because it concerns specifically Christ and the Incarnation, the fact that there has been a unique intervention in history. It’s not a matter in these stories of Do Unto Others. That can be found in any ethical cultural series. It is the fact of the Word made flesh. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

#jesus #religion #the-golden-rule #religion

Here's my Golden Rule for a tarnished age: Be fair with others, but keep after them until they're fair with you. ↗

— Alan Alda

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