#coming

Sometimes milestones are not measured by the accomplishments of society, but by those of integrity. ↗

— Tamara Rose Blodgett

#death-series #self-realization #tamara-rose-blodgett #unrequited-death #age

And then I know I'm being a man, not just some kid who's upset and wants it his way. ↗

— Angela Johnson

#coming-of-age #growing-up #age

You are meant to be, despite how you got here; you’ll see someday. ↗

— Raquel Cepeda

#divine-intervention #journey-in-life #spiritual-guides #spirituality #age

Be of good cheer. Do not think of today's failures, but of the success that may come tomorrow. You have set yourselves a difficult task, but you will succeed if you persevere; and you will find a joy in overcoming obstacles. Remember, no effort that we make to attain something beautiful is ever lost. ↗

— Helen Keller

#optimism #overcoming #beauty

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #girls #growing-up #age

You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn ↗

— Jim Rohn

#change #directions #change

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ↗

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

#going-away #magic #travel #change

Something happened during Matt's talk. When I sat down I was one person, but by the time he was done, I was someone else. Someone changed. Someone new. Someone I didn't know. My arms were covered in gooseflesh. My stomach was doing this buoyant, top-of-the-roller-coaster thing. Suddenly I wanted to be pretty. I wanted guys to think I was pretty. In particular, I wanted this guy to think I was pretty... ↗

— Susan Auten

#love #romance #sweet #change

He was one of those people who completely changes when they smile. Like the sun had come out. ↗

— Caroline Green

#one-of-those-people #smile #sun-coming-out #change

There are two different ways of being a person. One of these precedes the change of heart, and the other follows it. The first is fearful, anxious, resentful, and alienated from other people; the second, open resonant with others, buoyant, straightforward, and secure. To the extent that we live the second way, we care about others. We do not see them merely in terms of our own interests, as helping or hindering us. They are real to us; we are as sensitive to their feelings and hopes and needs as we are to our own. On the other hand, when we feel alienated, we engross ourselves in our own agenda. We pursue wealth, power, personal perfection, pleasure, distraction, or some other protection from emotional pain. We divide people into two categories-- those who will help us in our self-seeking projects and those who won't, and the latter we fear or hate as our rivals or enemies. We use people or abuse them. We look at people guardedly and stand ready to resent them whenever they cross us. Their own hopes and needs aren't real to us. ↗

— C. Terry Warner

#change