#if

Friends are hard to find. In a lifetime you only get a few. And when you find them, you always know them by sight and heart alone, you always grow a little bit taller in your soul, and you know you have been blessed just to know them. ↗

— Ashley Rice

#friendship #i-am-privlidged #love #my-friends #beauty

The Inhabitants of Carolina, thro' the Richness of the Soil, live an easy and pleasant Life. ↗

— John Lawson

#easy #inhabitants #life #live #pleasant

Some part of me remembers what snow is, but this is the first time my new mind has seen it. It softens the crumbled sidewalks and turns rusty rooftops white. It’s beautiful. It crunches under my feet as I move toward the house, longing to understand. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#longing #memories #winter-eve #beauty

It's unfortunate that sometimes in schools, there's this need to have things quantified and graded. ↗

— Rita Dove

#quantified #schools #sometimes #things #unfortunate

I think when you follow a band, you're following a - and I don't like to use the term 'brand,' but you are following a kind of style, if you like. So I think you have to accept that there will be different people involved from time to time. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#band #be different #brand #different #different people

Celebrity distorts democracy by giving the rich, beautiful, and famous more authority than they deserve. ↗

— Maureen Dowd

#authority #beautiful #celebrity #democracy #deserve

We have always tried to treat every album differently and even from day one I think that each Asia album has been approached with care and thought and hopefully that shines through twenty years later. ↗

— Geoff Downes

#always #approached #asia #been #care

There is something innocently beautiful about watching two people behave as though no one else existed, and lovingly act silly together. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#in-love #life #love #relationships #silly

Lies cannot nourish or protect you. Only freedom from fear, freedom from lies, can make us beautiful, and keep us safe. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#beauty #fear #freedom #lies #safe

You say freak, I say unique. ↗

— Christian Baloga

#attraction #beautiful #ethereal #freak #imperfections