#earning

Our parents can show us a lot of things: they can show us how we are to be and what things we ought to strive for, or they can show us how not to be and what things we ought to stray from, then you may have the kind of parents that show you all the things about you that you want to get rid of and you realize those traits aren't yours at all but are merely your parents' marks that have rubbed off onto you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#learning #parents #parents-and-children #self-awareness #self-development

I am tired, Beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little inkdrops, And posting it. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#yearning #love

If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do," said Magnus, still looking at Alec, "you will never learn from your mistakes. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-bones #learning #magnus-bane #mistakes #magnus-bane

A lovely evening of new idioms and fresh mozzarella. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#love

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belonging #changing #growing #inspirational #inspirational-love

My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all...All my heart has ever wanted is you. ↗

— Stephanie Laurens

#dream #longing #love #need #romance

Because I trust in the ever-changing climate of the heart. (At least, today I feel that way.) I think it is necessary to have many experiences for the sake of feeling something; for the sake of being challenged, and for the sake of being expressive, to offer something to someone else, to learn what we are capable of. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#expression #feelings #humor #inspirational #learning

Every time the wind blows I think of her. I wonder if I could generate electricity off my yearning. Maybe a mind wind farm of some kind. Hopefully I could provide enough power for all the lonely people in my bathtub to stay warm. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#electricity #funny #humor #lonely #power

One thing I learned in here is the past is for learning. It's not for punishing others or yourself. It's not for dwelling on and getting angry about things you can't change. It's for learning how to do better in the rest of your life. And being grateful you get another chance to try and do better. ↗

— Nicole Green

#past #change