#ip

In a culture of diversity, one group is likely not "just like everyone else." To deny that we have different needs, concerns, thought processes, worldview, is to refuse to look at the reason we are supposedly an identifiable community. ↗

— Anthony D. Ravenscroft

#equality #relationships #equality

Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#relationship #equality

Don't say Fili, sister. Say Pili. In Tagalog, pili means to choose. Pino means fine. Pilipino equals 'fine choice. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn The Gangster of Love

#filipino-authors #identity #nationality #equality

I believe that we must align our actions with our highest principles. No matter the outcome, we will not have failed if we act from our best intentions.” “The road to hell is paved with good intentions, Captain,” Chakotay said with equal certainty. “So is the road to peace,” Cambridge observed. ↗

— Kirsten Beyer

#peace #principles #equality

They shared a laugh, and then the silence that so often intruded on their discussion asserted itself once again, a gap born of equal parts weariness, familiarity and--conversely--the many differences that fate had created between those who had once gone about lives that were but variations on a single melody. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#relationships #equality

When we become acquainted with any person on a human level, even a great enemy, we begin to see that no person is really so different from ourselves. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#equality #friendship #equality

Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book." (Steven Levy) ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#ipod #music #dating

Yes, I totally would date a fan! I get this question a lot, but I'm always saying yes. ↗

— Cody Simpson

#dating #dating

As the world continually multiplies, are we in a generation where people are divided, or people are equal? ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#equal #equations #finale #generation #math

Relationship Time to Aloneness." Having a companion fixes you in time and that of the present, but when the quality of aloneness settles down, past, present and future all flow together. A memory, a present event, and a forecast all equally present. ↗

— steinbeck

#solitude #time #equality