#comin

I want to know we're not pushing children toward the traditions of life, but instead cultivating them to grow in their own specific purposes, and make the dreams of their youth become realities as they age. ↗

— Ashley Ormon

#children #dreams-coming-true #goals #goals-in-life #success

If being queer meant loving Aaron, then he'd own the label, at least internally. ↗

— Tibby Armstrong

#coming-out-stories #gay-romance #love

Me parece que de nada vale correr si siempre ha de irse por el mismo camino, cerrado, de nuestra personalidad. Unos seres nacen para vivir, otros para trabajar, y otros para mirar la vida. Yo tenia un pequeño y ruin papel de espectadora. Imposible salirme de él. Imposible libertarme. Una tremenda congoje fue para mí lo único real en aquellos momentos. ↗

— Carmen Laforet

#coming-of-age #existentialism #laforet #nada #spanish-civil-war

The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. ↗

— Harri Holkeri

#becoming #countries #everybody #finland #life

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary. ↗

— Robert Falcon Scott

#camp #day #diary #dreary #effort

Making the City Of Joy gave me the best political education of my life. It became a wrestling match between an Englishman who had gradually ceased to be a Marxist, and a culture that was becoming more Marxist by the day. ↗

— Roland Joffe

#becoming #best #between #ceased #city

She was neither white nor black, Fyre nor Aquanite; she was a dame of the White King, and it was up to her, and her alone, to choose what path her life would take. ↗

— Christine E. Schulze

#adventuresome-women #ashlei #choice #coming-of-age #equal

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door. ↗

— Jeff Foxworthy

#being #bernard #born #cat #coming

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth? I'm coming to join ya, honey! ↗

— Redd Foxx

#coming #elizabeth #hear #honey #i

There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don't lose yourself at happy hour, but don't lose yourself on the corporate ladder, either. ↗

— Shauna Niequist

#growing-up #learning #life-lessons #change