#boys

…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #courage

It's just that life felt the right size in there... not too big and not too small. Wasn't so hard to work up a bit of courage. It's got so bloody complicated since then. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#complicated #courage #life #master-harold #master-harold-and-the-boys

I don't use a crap camera, I don't eat junk, and I'm not going to a dance where the boys are bores ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#boys #dance #humor #attitude

As they grew sloppier and less alert, the twins argued too loudly about whether Tiger Lily was ugly or beautiful, and finally agreed that she was "ugly beautiful". Tiger Lily pretended she hadn't heard, but her heart slowed to absorb the blow. ↗

— Jodi Lynn Anderson

#lost-boys #tiger-lily #ugly #beauty

... but that's the beauty of boarding school. I make all my own decisions, small and medium, while the big ones are left up to the Prefect Academy - and as far as boys go, to the only expert I know - Suzanne Santry ↗

— Adriana Trigiani

#boys #decisions #beauty

Then at once they reached and hovered upon the imminent verge of sleep - but an intruder came, now, that would not "down". It was conscience. They began to feel a vague fear that they had been doing wrong to run away; and next they thought of the stolen meat, and then the real torture came [...] So they inwardly resolved that so long as they remained in the business, their piracies should not again be sullied with the crime of stealing. Then conscience granted a truce, and these curiously inconsistent pirates fell peacefully to sleep. ↗

— Mark Twain

#childhood #conscience #human-nature #humanity #sleep

I keep myself busy with things to do, but every-time i pause, i still think f you. ↗

— Courtt

#business

…for it is a very solemn thing to be arrested in the midst of busy life by the possibility of the great change. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#louisa-may-alcott #business

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness. ↗

— Gheorghe Muresan

#exercise #fitness #gheorghe-muresan #girls-fitness #health

Say there’s this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you’ve been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it’s almost as if you don’t want to change. Because you’ll miss the person you were before. ↗

— Bennett Madison

#virginity #change