#shine

We both grew up at a time when homosexuality was not even spoken about. There were certainly no books that could help a young person understand that two people of the same sex could build a happy, productive and loving life together. When we entered our 50th year, another same sex couple told us we were ‘an inspiration’, so we began to feel we had the responsibility to make what we’ve experienced available to others. We also wanted to show people who were not gay that our life was not unlike theirs. We are all pretty much the same, so we deserve equal protection under the Constitution. ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #love-story #norman-sunshine #equality

There was no money in the sport but we'd be out there day in, day out, rain or shine, doing it. ↗

— Linford Christie

#doing #money #out #rain #shine

Friends are the sunshine of life. ↗

— John Hay

#life #sunshine

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely something to distinguish one team's uniform from another's. ↗

— Ernie Harwell

#bag #baseball #book #clearest #color

I came from the country, and when I came to the city, I was ridin' high, you know. I was seeing more lights than I ever dreamed to shine in the world. 'Cos where I came from, there wasn't too many lights. Bugs made a lot of light, but after that there wasn't no lights. ↗

— John Hunter

#bugs #came #city #cos #country

Before he had come to the town he had known about nothing but death: here he had learnt to live, to decide things for himself; he had learnt what it felt like to wash in clean water in the sunshine until he was clean himself, and what it felt like to satisfy his hunger with food that tasted good; he had learnt the sound of laughter that was free from cruelty; he had learnt the meaning of beauty ↗

— Anne Holm

#freedom #sunshine #water #beauty

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out. ↗

— Elizabeth Goudge

#love #sunshine #friendship

About their wedding on a beach of Nantucket, after nearly 50 years together as a couple: "After years of being who we truly were only in the privacy of our homes or with a few friends, we were out in the world, under the sky, no longer pretending.” - Norman Sunshine, co-author, Double Life ↗

— Norman Sunshine

#double-life #gay-marriage #love-story #norman-sunshine #home

There's a hard life for every silver spoon. There's a touch of gray for every shade of blue. That's the way I see life. If there was nothing wrong... Then there'd be nothing right. ↗

— Shinedown

#music #right #shinedown #wrong #life

I hope they understand that I'm not angry, I'm just saying... Sometimes goodbye is a second chance. ↗

— Shinedown

#second-chance #shinedown #music