#ear

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#conscience

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#heart #hurt #word #wound #child

Will looked as if he were being asked to believe in something impossible—snow in summertime, a London winter without rain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#tessa-gray #will-herondale #london

Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#history #learning #school #school

At least I don't look like a Christmas tree." "You look like the star atop the tree. ↗

— Jennifer L. Armentrout

#compliment #daemon #heartwarming #katy #sweet

And anything that might hurt me would just make me stronger in the end. ↗

— Elizabeth Eulberg

#lonely

God created war so that Americans would learn geography. ↗

— Mark Twain

#geography #war #learn

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping." To this day, especially in times of "disaster," I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world. ↗

— Fred Rogers

#childhood #children #disaster #fear #helping

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #courage #faith #haiku #haikus

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#goodkind #ghost