- “I love you in the future tense: I will love you, tomorrow and the day after and the day after that until there are no more days left for us.” ― Chuck Wendig, Wanderers
- I think our job as parents is to give our kids roots to grow and wings to fly. Deborah Norville
- “Forgiveness is created by the restitution of the abuser; of the wrongdoer. It is not something to be squeeeeeezed out of the victim in a further act of conscience-corrupting abuse.” ― Stefan Molyneux
- “Do not let the one who broke your heart ruin it for the ones who care.” ― Charlena E. Jackson, Unapologetic For My Flaws and All
- “I am filled time and againwith a heart-aching wonder when I thinkof the fireand frost of memoriesof the everlastingnessof lovethe solace of familyand the power of prayer.” ― Sanober Khan, Turquoise Silence
- “To be yourself is in many ways to be inconvenient to others. Only placaters and appeasers get along with other people all the time and that’s not really getting along with anyone. That’s just self erasure.” ― Stefan Molyneux
- “Of course what I’m about to share isn’t true for me but…Friends, somebody said, are “god’s apology for relations.” (p. 129)” ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
- “(You do not have to be shamed in my closeness. Family are the people who must never make you feel ashamed.)(You are wrong. Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.)(And you are deserving of shame?)(I am. I am trying to tell you.) ‘We were stupid,’ he said, ‘because we believed in things.”Why is this stupid?”Because there are not things to believe in.'(Love?)(There is no love. Only the end of love.)(Goodness?)(Do not be a fool.)(God?)(If God exists, He is not to be believed in.)” ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated
- “A lot of pain that we are dealing with are really only THOUGHTS.” ― Abhishek Shukla, Feelings Undefined: The Charm of the Unsaid Vol. 1
- “Sometimes I want to be human for you.” ― Sarah Rees Brennan, The Demon’s Covenant
- Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family. Anthony Brandt
- “It’s not reasonable to love people who are only going to die,” she said.Nash thought about that for a moment, stroking Small’s neck with great deliberation, as if the fate of the Dells depended on that smooth, careful movement.”I have two responses to that,” he said finally. “First, everyone’s going to die. Second, love is stupid. It has nothing to do with reason. You love whomever you love. Against all reasons I loved my father.” He looked at her keenly. “Did you love yours?””Yes,” she whispered.He stroked Small’s nose. “I love you,” he said, “even knowing you’ll never have me. And I love my brother, more than I ever realized before you came along. You can’t help whom you love, Lady. Nor can you know what it’s liable to cause you to do.”She made a connection then. Surprised she sat back from him and studied his face, soft with shadows and light. She saw a part of him she hadn’t seen before.”You came to me for lessons to guard your mind,” she said, “and you stopped asking me to marry you, both at the same time. You did those things out of love for your brother.””Well” he said, looking a bit sheepishly at the floor. “I also took a few swings at him, but that’s neither here nor there.””You’re good at love,” she said simply, because it seemed to her that it was true. “I’m not so good at love. I’m like a barbed creature. I push everyone I love away.”He shrugged. “I don’t mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.” ― Kristin Cashore, Fire
- “Don’t be afraid of failures it takes courage to try new things & only those who try create History.” ― Abhishek Shukla, KISS Life “Life is what you make it”
- “How did your mother die?” asked Delk.“Car accident,” Katie replied, gazing out over the water. “She’d been to mass. A tire blew on the way home, and she was gone. I was nineteen, Pather’s age, when it happened. My brother was only eleven.” She paused. “I do know what you’re going through.” Katie looked at her.“Pather told you?” Katie nodded. Delk was glad Pather had told his sister; she was relieved not to have to tell the story again. “Does it ever . . . you know . . . get any better?”Katie shrugged her narrow shoulders and smiled. “In some ways it does, but it’s a bit like running a long race with a rock in your shoe. You get used to it, but it always hurts a little.” ― Suzanne Supplee, When Irish Guys Are Smiling
- “Life ought to be live with great optimism.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, On Eagles Wings:Rise
- Families are like branches on a tree – we grow in different directions yet our roots remain as one. Unknown
- “To all those who care, You can’t forever. Time steals the years,And your reflection in the mirror.But I can still see the story in your eyes, And your timeless passion that’s never died.While your skin became tired,Your heart became strong,The present became the past,And your memories like a song.And though the moment at hand is all that we have, You’ve taught me to live it like it is our last.Since two words don’t say ‘thank you’ the way they are meant to,I’ll try all my life to be something like you.” ― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 2
- “It was masturbation, not willpower, that made it possible for gazillions of women to walk down the aisle with their reputation and their hymen still intact.” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
- “Mothers and their children are in a category all their own. There’s no bond so strong in the entire world. No love so instantaneous and forgiving.” ― Gail Tsukiyama, Dreaming Water
- “It is impossible to enjoy divine protection without the word of God. You must be a word addict.” ― Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
- “Will having a newborn distract from the time we have together?” she asked. “Don’t you think saying goodbye to your child will make your death more painful?””Wouldn’t it be great if it did?” I said. Lucy and I both felt that life wasn’t about avoiding suffering.” ― Paul Kalanithi, When Breath Becomes Air
- “Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we can never forget that celluloid film is see-through, that behind it, all the misery of real life waits for our wall to collapse someday.” ― Rebecca McNutt
- “My personal problems are seeds that I’ve planted. They do not sprout when they are supposed to. They tend to grow when I least expect it. That is when most of my problems occur. I have to work on planting my seeds at the right time. I also have to make sure they are getting enough sunshine, rain, and a lot of love—so they can sprout during the right season.” ― Charlena E. Jackson, Unapologetic For My Flaws and All
- “It is a healthy approach not to expect persons to turn out precisely how you would have wished.” ― Criss Jami, Healology
- “There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Some women do not masturbate for pleasure; they masturbate to make a political statement: to remind us that women do not really need men (or at least not as much and as frequently as every single male chauvinist and every single misogynist believes).” ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana, On Masturbation: A Satirical Essay
- “Friends are the family you choose (~ Nin/Ithilnin, Elven rogue).” ― Jess C Scott, The Other Side of Life
- Home is the nicest word there is. Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “It is okay not to be okay as long as you talk to someone.” ― Charlena E. Jackson, Unapologetic For My Flaws and All
- “To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.” ― Suman Jyoty Thera