#ships

If you are going to go to the trouble of choosing healthy food for your plate, shouldn't you also choose healthy people for your life? ↗

— Ramani Durvasula

#inspirational #relationships #attitude

When we do the hard, intimate work of friendship, we bring a little more of the divine into daily life. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#friendship #relationships #faith

There is always hope for man or dog in life if only they be cute ↗

— Chris Pariseau

#love #men #men-and-dogs #relationships #life

I am in love, and the river is beginning to ice over. I’d better go drown myself before I freeze to death.
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— Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#death #drown #freeze #freezing #funny

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together. ↗

— Graham Greene

#beauty

So where does the name Adam's apple come from? Most people say that it is from the notion that this bump was caused by the forbidden fruit getting stuck in the throat of Adam in the Garden of Eden. There is a problem with this theory because some Hebrew scholars believe that the forbidden fruit was the pomegranate. The Koran claims that the forbidden fruit was a banana. So take your pick---Adam's apple, Adam's pomegranate, Adam's banana. Eve clearly chewed before swallowing. ↗

— Mark Leyner

#funny #humorous #irony #relationships #funny

I had a dream about you last night… it was raining and you were fishing for fire to set a sandcastle a flame. ↗

— Nicole McKay

#dreams #funny #humor #life #relationships

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. ↗

— Charles Simic

#constructing #empty #i #inside #lighthouse

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric. ↗

— George Eliot

#humility #lifestyle #relationships #age

I’ll wipe a booger on your living room wall, not only to show I was there, but also to say thanks for having me over.
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— Jarod Kintz

#gratitude #humor #relationships #rude #thanks