#shelter

Well the real concept of basic needs if you cut it right down are simply the physical needs that are unavoidable for all of us. So to have enough calories to keep our bodies going. Have shelter from extreme elements. To have water that is safe to drink, So I think that's the core of it. ↗

— Peter Singer

#basic needs #bodies #calories #concept #core

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness. ↗

— Tony Snow

#food #help #kindness #near #now

It is idleness that creates impossibilities; and where people don't care to do anything, they shelter themselves under a permission that it cannot be done. ↗

— Bishop Robert South

#cannot #care #creates #done #idleness

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel; there is only one home to the life of a tortoise; there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter? ↗

— Wole Soyinka

#give #great #home #leaves #life

It's traditional for an heiress to be raised in a sheltered way. No one thinks that's true of me, but it actually was. ↗

— Paris Hilton

#heiress #me #raised #sheltered #thinks

I tend to prefer the shelter of fiction. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#i #prefer #shelter #tend

I showed up in L.A. with $500 and a backpack and I stayed at a shelter, so nobody handed me anything. I worked for every single thing that I have. ↗

— Jared Leto

#backpack #every #handed #i #me

All I know is that I've wasted all these years looking for something, a sort of trophy I'd get only if I really, really did enough to deserve it. But I don't want it anymore, I want something else now, something warm and sheltering, something I can turn to, regardless of what I do, regardless of who I become. Something that will just be there, always, like tomorrow's sky. That's what I want now, and I think it's what you should want too. But it will be too late soon. We'll become too set to change. If we don't take our chance now, another may never come for either of us. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#chances #change #constancy #contentment #giving-up

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It's that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens a certain number of times, and a very small number, really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps four or five times more. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps twenty. And yet it all seems limitless. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#death

Cats know how to obtain food without labor, shelter without confinement, and love without penalties. ↗

— W. L. George

#cats #confinement #food #how #know