#esp

Self-respect knows no considerations. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#knows #self-respect

If not us, then who? If not now, then when? ↗

— John Lewis

#change #civil-rights #integrity #moral-courage #personal-responsibility

What I've found about it is that there are some folks you can talk to until you're blue in the face--they're never going to get it and they're never going to change. But every once in a while, you'll run into someone who is eager to listen, eager to learn, and willing to try new things. Those are the people we need to reach. We have a responsibility as parents, older people, teachers, people in the neighborhood to recognize that. ↗

— Tyler Perry

#growing-up #maturity #mentor #mentoring #mentors

Your life begins to change the day you take responsibility for it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life #motivational #responsibility

As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you. ↗

— George Alexiou

#empowerment #inspirational #integrity #joy #love

THIS IS WHY He will never be given to wonder much if he was the mouth for some cruel force that said it. But if he were (this will comfort her) less than one moment out of millions had he meant it. So many years and so many turns they had swerved around the subject. And he will swear for many more the kitchen and everything in it vanished -- the oak table, their guests, the refrigerator door he had been surely propped against-- all changed to rusted ironwork and ash except in the center in her linen caftan: she was not touched. He remembers the silence before he spoke and her nodding a little, as if in the meat of this gray waste here was the signal for him to speak what they had long agreed, what somewhere they had prepared together. And this one moment in the desert of ash stretches into forever. They had been having a dinner party. She had been lonely. A friend asked her almost joking if she had ever felt really crazy, and when she started to unwind her answer in long, lovely sentences like scarves within her he saw this was the way they could no longer talk together. And that is when he said it, in front of the guests, because he couldn't bear to hear her. And this is why the guests have left and she screams as he comes near her. ↗

— Michael Ryan

#crazy #desperation #poetry #change

Happiness has no time limits or conditions; the only requirement is to give it away. ↗

— George Alexiou

#change #empowerment #happiness #inspirational #integrity

I never let myself get desperate. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#get #i #myself #never

Being a Hot Mom means being respected as a mom and a woman. And, the key to being a Hot Mom is having a sense of humor about yourself and all the crazy situations that arise. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#arise #being #crazy #having #hot

I was receiving at least ninety-nine incredible, positive, and life-changing responses for every negative or abusive one, yet I couldn’t stop looking at the one percent. I couldn’t get them out of my mind. I let them kill my excitement. I let them destroy my love for what I was doing. I let them shut me down. I let them bully me into changing the way I did things around here. I almost stopped. I almost gave up. I almost quit writing. But every time, I remembered my dad. He taught me better than that. And I forced myself to be excited again. I forced myself to see the goal and vision of why I was excited in the first place. I forced myself to start skipping over the negative replies and start diving into the loving ones. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#negativity #peer-pressure #public-figures #public-opinion #respond