#if

She often spoke to falling seeds and said, "Ah hope you fall on soft ground," because she had heard seeds saying that to each other as they passed. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#beauty

We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them. ↗

— Carlisle Floyd

#black #black and white #bright #colors #differences

I have four or five ideas that just keep floating around and I want to kind of just let one - like a beautiful butterfly, let it land somewhere. ↗

— Gillian Flynn

#beautiful #butterfly #five #floating #four

But Fascism cannot continue in a modified form. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#continue #fascism #form #modified

The whole drive of western culture, the part of it which is serious, is towards an extreme objectification. It's carried to the point where the human subject is treated almost as if it's dirt in the works of a watch. ↗

— Henry Flynt

#carried #culture #dirt #drive #extreme

Such is my relationship with God: on my gigantic canvass of life, I am the one throwing all of the brightly-colored paints, creating genuine splatters, authentic whirlpools of color, beautiful patterns, wonderful streaks and stains and wild accents; God is the one with the paintbrush who stands beside my canvass filling all the intricate and amazing details in between the whirlpools and the streaks! We're happy together! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#god #inspirational-god #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

I felt like an extraordinary hero. I was only five or six and I had the whole of life in my hands. Even if I had been driving the carriage of the sun I could not have felt any better. ↗

— Dario Fo

#been #better #carriage #could #driving

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest. ↗

— Dario Fo

#games #involved #justification #mode #nevertheless

My life is as an artist, not an entertainer. I don't consider myself an entertainer, but I can do that thing when I want to. ↗

— Dan Fogelberg

#consider #entertainer #i #i can #life

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony. ↗

— John Fogerty

#beautiful #elegant #harmony #i #i think