#makin

That's how it was on Irving Circle and how I was raised: You made the best out of what was within reach, which meant friendships engineered by parents and by the happenstance of housing. I stayed with it because we both had queenly older sisters who rarely condescended to play with us, because Shelley was adopted and I was not, because Shelley had Clue and Life, and I did not ↗

— Elinor Lipman

#making-do #friendship

Friendships unfold gradually as women share intimacies with one another- this takes time. You need to be willing to let your friends know the real you, but you don't want to spill your guts out the first time you're out to lunch. ↗

— Irene S. Levine

#friendship-quotes #making-friends #friendship

I know I always worked hard on making sure we came out with the best possible product and of course we were working with four other people, you have to balance that as well. ↗

— Chris Squire

#balance #best #came #course #four

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#apology #couples #couples-fights #fucking #make-love

So, what can't you take? Decide which of the two options is harder, and do the other. That way, no matter how hard your choice turns out to be, at least you can find comfort in knowing you're avoiding something even worse. ↗

— Josephine Angelini

#decision-making #comfort

The career of motherhood and homemaking is beyond value and needs no justification. Its importance is incalculable. ↗

— Katherine Short

#homemaking #motherhood #career

The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#life #life

I am sure that there is no place in the world where your message would not be enhanced by your making the place (whether tiny or large, a hut or a palace) orderly, artistic and beautiful with some form of creativity, some form of ‘art’ (p. 213). ↗

— Edith Schaeffer

#creativity #homemaking #art

All art involves conscious discipline. If one is going to paint, do sculpture, design a building or write a book, it will involve discipline in time and energy — or there would never be any production at all to be seen, felt or enjoyed by ourselves or others. To develop ‘Hidden Art’ will also, of course, take time and energy – and the balance of the use of time is a constant individual problem for all of us: what to do, and what to leave undone. One is always having to neglect one thing in order to give precedence to something else. The question is one of priorities” (p. 32). ↗

— Edith Schaeffer

#homemaking #art

It is true that all men are created in the image of God, but Christians are supposed to be conscious of that fact, and being conscious of it should recognize the importance of living artistically, aesthetically, and creatively, as creative creatures of the Creator. If we have been created in the image of an Artist, then we should look for expressions of artistry, and be sensitive to beauty, responsive to what has been created for us” (p. 32). ↗

— Edith Schaeffer

#creativity #homemaking #art