#dre

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#inspiration #life #inspirational

To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my mind, except in my dreams, where the aftertaste of her still lingers. ↗

— André P. Brink

#endings #relationships #dreams

Feel no guilt. Getting married and giving birth does not mean that you have sold your life away to perfectly healthy people who can get their own damn socks. ↗

— Jennifer Crusie

#guilt #marriage #life

Pain is a byproduct of life. That’s the truth. Life sometimes sucks. That’s true for everyone. But if you don’t face the pain and the suck, you don’t ever get the other things either. Laughter. Joy. Love. Pain passes, but those things are worth fighting for. Worth dying for. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #pain #life

Children and dogs are the messengers of God some of us do not deserve them ↗

— Ginnetta Correli

#children #god #life #life

I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#ender #life-lessons #life

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#advice #advise #best way #children #find

It is wrong to bear children out of need, wrong to use a child to alleviate loneliness, wrong to provide purpose in life by reproducing another copy of oneself. It is wrong also to seek immortality by spewing one's germ into the future as though sperm contains your consciousness! ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#future #immortality #life #procreation #life

Life is only lived full-time by women with children. ↗

— Marguerite Duras

#life

Be generous with your smile and try not to frown. And you will see my children; your smile will never let you down ☺ ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#education #educational #humorous #poetry #wisdom