#bullying

No matter what you may have to overcome...it's always worth chasing your dream! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #dreams

You should be nicer to him,' a schoolmate had once said to me of some awfully ill-favored boy. 'He has no friends.' This, I realized with a pang of pity that I can still remember, was only true as long as everybody agreed to it. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#friends #pity #school #schoolmates #memoir

You only get to walk variations of the same lines everyone has already drawn for you. ↗

— Courtney Summers

#high-school #high-school

Greg starts a middle school and asks: Why is "bullies" such a big PROBLEM? And says people need to shave twice a day. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#bullying

The TV said you should ignore bullies and they would stop harassing you. In practice this worked about half the time. The other half, you ended up with two tall boys shadowing you through a trailer park, their fingers taking little nips at your clothes, like dogs. ↗

— Jennifer Echols

#bullying

He had put his hand up in class, a declaration of existence, a claim that he knew something. And that was forbidden to him. They could give a number of reasons for why they had to torment him; he was too fat, too ugly, too disgusting. But the real problem was simply that he existed, and every reminder of his existence was a crime. ↗

— John Ajvide Lindqvist

#bullying

Ben Says: To all of the children of today...Work hard & study well. You can be me...because I was once you! Education will always get you far! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #education

Bullying is killing our kids. Being different is killing our kids and the kids who are bullying are dying inside. We have to save our kids whether they are bullied or they are bullying. They are all in pain. ↗

— Cat Cora

#being different #bullied #bullying #different #dying

All children are our responsibility and should always be safe. We must do what we can to help them stay safe, wel and educated. The future of humanity depands on it. Without children...earth will not have a future. ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational #education

Most comedy is based on getting a laugh at somebody else's expense. And I find that that's just a form of bullying in a major way. So I want to be an example that you can be funny and be kind, and make people laugh without hurting somebody else's feelings. ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres

#be kind #bullying #comedy #else #example