#relations

I opened the door and stepped in. Raw pain filled me at the sight of my painting. 'Show me what it looked like, before the fire.' His request surprised me, but I did as he asked. With eyes closed, I projected the exact details of the painting I had poured my soul into. Just as I had experienced his love of surfing in a visceral way, he shared not just the visual beauty of my work, but the love and passion with which I had dedicated myself to it. 'Thank you. Now, it will never truly be gone.' I choked back a sob and went to Mr. K's office. ↗

— Kimberly Kinrade

#fantasy #love #paranormal #relationships #romance

The family is the basis of society. As the family is, so is the society, and it is human beings who make a family-not the quantity of them, but the quality of them. ↗

— Ashley Montagu

#family-relationships #society #sociology #family

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#being #briefly #duty #find #first

Certainly the experiences of Seth and his relationship to his parents and his point of view of the world are very similar to my own and very much based on my experiences at the University of Southern California. ↗

— Josh Schwartz

#california #certainly #experiences #his #much

In bodies moved, the motion is received, increased, diminished, or lost, according to the relations of the quantity of matter and velocity; each diversity is uniformity, each change is constancy. ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#bodies #change #constancy #diminished #diversity

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. ↗

— Amy Sedaris

#along #always #father #good #good relationship

I always have awkward relationships with the ladies for whatever reason. I don't know and so here we are. I was able to sort of take all of those terrible, terrible, terrible dates and turn them into a money making venture. ↗

— Jason Segel

#always #awkward #dates #here #i

Which is, I'm an optimist that two people can be together to work out their conflicts. And that commitment, I think, might be what love is, because they both grow from their relationship. ↗

— Garry Shandling

#because #both #commitment #conflicts #grow

That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended. ↗

— Josh Silver

#come #enjoy #even #four #hateful

My attention since 'Clueless' has been on family, relationships, activism, the planet, and my career. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#attention #been #career #clueless #family