#lan

My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada. ↗

As a Christian and a feminist, the most important message I can carry and fight for is the sacredness of each human life, and reproductive rights for all women are a crucial part of that. It is a moral necessity that we not be forced to bring children into the world for whom we cannot be responsible and adoring and present. We must not inflict life on children who will be resented; we must not inflict unwanted children on society. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#planned-parenthood #reproductive-rights #life

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life. ↗

— Charles Scribner, Jr.

#commonplace #cultivated #essential #everyday #everyday life

Before I can tell my life what I want to do with it, I must listen to my life telling me who I am. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#life #life-plan #vocation #life

People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic ↗

— Dylan Moran

#life #life

I'd rather waltz than just walk through the forest The trees keep the tempo and they sway in time Quartet of crickets chime in for the chorus If I were to pluck on your heartstrings, would you strum on mine? ↗

— Owl City

#plant-life #life

Feeling that Peter was on his way back, the Neverland had again woke into life. We ought to use the pluperfect and say wakened, but woke is better and was always used by Peter. ↗

— J.M. Barrie

#peter-pan #life

I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less. ↗

— Diane Cilento

#australia #commuting #england #had #i

Life, deal gently with her ... Love, never desert her ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#gentle #jane #lantern #life #love

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#direction #enthusiastic #given #people #plan