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One of the nicest things you can do to kick-start your children’s day is to tell them honestly they look nice as they head out the door. This easy, five-second exchange says to your child: “I see you; I notice you; I love you. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honesty #joy #kick-start #kindness #love

God never leaves His children to wander alone. We are always surrounded with unconditional love. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#children #god #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#drive #each #just #lived #lives

...she lost twenty minutes sitting on the floor with her arms wrapped around her knees, smiling into the pretty glow and imagining herself a contented farmer's wife waiting for her man to come in from the fields. ↗

— Nora Roberts

#daydream #fire #wife #imagination

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!" "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #religion #suffering #the-brothers-karamazov #theodicy

Do you want me to call you Celery Stick instead of Cupcake or Honey-Pie? It just doesn’t inspire the same warm and fuzzy feelings. ↗

— Richelle Mead

#sydney-sage #inspirational

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#love #inspirational

Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we've been blessed with. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #empowerment #gratitude #inspirational #life

Rogerson," I asked him sweetly as we sat watching a video in the pool house, "where would I find the pelagic zone?" "In the open sea," he said. "Now shut up and eat your Junior Mints. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #inspirational

Be wary of strong drink, it can make you shoot at the tax collector...and miss. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#inspirational #inspirational