#ear

Much has been accomplished during the last year in the campaign against terrorism. This struggle will require vigilance, perseverance and sacrifice for many years to come. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#against #been #campaign #come #during

Your own family resemblances are a frustrating code, most easily read by those who know you least. ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#family #family

Atticus "three kinds of cat shit, Oberon." Oberon "and an arrogant family of squirrels. ↗

— Kevin Hearne

#batman-inuendos #great-swearing #family

Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. ↗

— Evan D.G. Fraser

#earth #eating #food #history #soul

We teach what we need to learn. And we teach it until we get it. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#learning #listening #maturity #teaching #family

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of acts of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over. ↗

— James Boswell

#heart #kindness #friendship

My fear of loneliness is like a disease. ↗

— Irene Tomkinson

#loneliness #solitude #family

Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally… ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#little-women #louisa-may-alcott #nature

Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government. ↗

— Erik Larson

#fear #germany #nazis #paranoia #tension

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. ↗

— Miguel de Cervantes

#earn #never #power #stand #which