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“But in summer, welcoming summer, the rocks are soft-fledged with moss. The forest floor is bouncy with fresh shoots and enthusiastic blooms; the twisted angles of the branches are laced by bud and leaf.”

Author:Tara O'Brady

“One of my favourite things about dining outdoors in a warmer season is that it frees hands and bares skin. ... When we don't need to wear or carry heavy clothing, our bodies feel lighter and our hands are freed for other things. Like carrying bottles of rosé; bags of stone fruit, fish, and clams; and a simple kettle and a tiny grill for a quiet, all-day beach excursion. Then we can eat well.”

Eating Summer Kinfolk

Author:Kirstin Jackson

“Never exalt people because they're in your family; never exalt people because they're your color; never exalt people because they're your kinfolk. Exalt them because they're worthy.”

People Color Worthy Our Family Kinfolk

Author:Louis Farrakhan

“From reading of the people I admired - ranging from the soldiers of Valley Forge and Morgan's riflemen to my Southern forefathers and kinfolk - I felt a great admiration for men who were fearless and who could hold their own in the world. And I had a great desire to be like them.”

People Men World War Desire Reading Felt Soldier Fearless Admiration Valleys Southern Forefathers Kinfolk Valley Forge

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“He who walks in the company of fools suffers much. Company with fools, as with an enemy, is always painful. Company with the wise is pleasure, like meeting with kinfolk.”

Suffering Walks Pleasure Company Enemy Wise Fool Meetings Painful Buddhist Kinfolk

Author:Gautama Buddha

“Of course, I love everyone I meet. How could I fail to! Within everyone is the spark of God. I am not concerned with racial or ethnic background or the color of one's skin; all people look to me like shining lights! I see in all creatures the reflections of God. All people are my kinfolk - people to me are beautiful!”

People Looks Light Beautiful Courses Failing Color Creatures Reflection Concerned Skins Shining Backgrounds Sparks Love Everyone Shining Light Ethnic Background Kinfolk

Book:Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

Source: Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words

“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”

“Why are we so concerned about whether other animals are like human beings or not? Because we are worried about whether we should consider them kinfolk of ours, relatives. If they are relatives of ours, then we should treat them with more respect than if they are not.”

Ifs Should Humans Human Beings Animal Concerned Treats Worried Kinfolk

Author:Sydney M. Lamb

“The opinions which we hold of one another, our relations with friends and kinsfolk are in no sense permanent, save in appearance, but are as eternally fluid as the sea itself.”

Opinion Sea Relation Appearance Permanent Fluid Kinfolk

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Marcel Proust (Illustrated)

“Followers of the Way [of Chán], if you want to get the kind of understanding that accords with the Dharma, never be misled by others. Whether you're facing inward or facing outward, whatever you meet up with, just kill it! If you meet a buddha, kill the buddha. If you meet a patriarch, kill the patriarch. If you meet an arhat, kill the arhat. If you meet your parents, kill your parents. If you meet your kinfolk, kill your kinfolk. Then for the first time you will gain emancipation, will not be entangled with things, will pass freely anywhere you wish to go.”

Ifs Way Want Firsts Kind Wish Parent Understanding Gains First Time Followers Inward Accord Dharma Emancipation Misled Patriarch Kinfolk

Author:Linji Yixuan

“All my skinfolk ain't kinfolk.”

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“That is where homeland is. In that shifting space, kinfolk know one another by secret signs; and wherever kinfolk meet, homeland soil coalesces about their feet in the mysterious way that coral cays, like seabirds pausing in flight, anchor themselves to the Barrier Reef.”

Knows Way Space Secret Feet Bird Flight Mysterious Soil Barriers Shifting Anchors Homeland Reefs Pausing Mysterious Ways Kinfolk

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories