#ric

Instead of plotting the demise of the traditional family, as some politicians and religious leaders would have you believe, gay people mow their lawns and watch 'American Idol' and video their children's concerts and have the same hopes and dreams that their straight counterparts do. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#american idol #believe #children #concerts #counterparts

Advice is such a tricky thing when you're young. ↗

— Jena Malone

#such #thing #tricky #you #young

I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself. ↗

— Nelson Mandela

#africa #dream #i #i dream #itself

Katrina was sexy, Irene looks hot, come on people, just see, how beautifully she dances along the coast. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#hurricane-irene #hurricane-katrina #beauty

روح روز تابستانی و نفسِ گل سرخی، تابستان اما سپری شده است و موسم گل‌ به آخر رسیده است کجا رفته‌اند؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند. خون قلب منی و جان آرامشی. قلب من امّا سرد است و جانم به سیاهی در نشسته است. کجایی تو ای یار؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند. امید سالیان منی و آفتاب برف‌های زمستانم. سال‌ها اما زیر آسمانی ابر اندود به پایان رسیده است. کجا یکدیگر را باز خواهیم یافت؟ که می‌داند، که می‌داند ↗

— Paul Laurence Dunbar

#life

The pursuit of the beautiful was, for [Duruflé], a gesture of the soul, not merely a function or an exercise of musical giftedness, or even of liturgical necessity. That is, perhaps, what Mme Duruflé meant in saying that he had ... a Gregorian soul. ↗

— James E. Frazier

#beauty

I'm basically a homegrown American. ↗

— Junior Seau

#basically #homegrown #i

I finally figured out the big, elusive secret to weight loss. Don't eat! Who knew? ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#food #humor #richelle #richelle-goodrich #weight-loss

This isn't food." Bram picked up a lavender-iced cake between thumb and finger and stared at it. "This is...edible ornamentation. ↗

— Tessa Dare

#food

To the untutored sage, the concentration of population was the prolific mother of all evils, moral no less than physical. He argued that food is good, while surfeit kills; that love is good, but lust destroys; and not less dreaded than the pestilence following upon crowded and unsanitary dwellings was the loss of spiritual power inseparable from too close contact with one's fellow-men. ↗

— Charles Alexander Eastman

#native-american #philosophy #spirituality #food