#shelter

Positive rights are the right to shelter, the right to education, the right to health care, the right to a living wage. These things are - these are, I would call them, more properly, political rights rather than positive rights. And they are extremely tricky, because now we are dealing with things that are zero sum. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#call #care #dealing #education #extremely

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

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

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friendship #gentle #listening #reaching-out #sheltered

One had to build shelters. One had to make pockets and live inside them. ↗

— Lorrie Moore

#protect #shelter #life

Friendship is a sheltering tree. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#sheltering #tree

Together with the Works of Mercy, feeding, clothing and sheltering our brothers, we must indoctrinate. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#clothing #feeding #mercy #must #our

You're raising a kid and you give it food and shelter and, most importantly, you give it the feeling that it's special. I think people react to celebrities like that - I mean, they treat celebrities like children. ↗

— David Duchovny

#children #feeling #food #give #i

My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died. ↗

— Mary A. Ward

#died #eight #father #fells #four

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day. ↗

— John Wooden

#against #art #be true #bible #blessings