#fault

So it’s your death suit.” “Correct. Don’t you have a death outfit?” “Yeah,” I said. “It’s a dress I bought for my fifteenth birthday party. But I don’t wear it on dates.” His eyes lit up. “We’re on a date?” he asked. I looked down, feeling bashful. “Don’t push it. ↗

— John Green

#dating

The world is full of men who want to be right, when actually the secret of a man's strength and his pathway to true honor is his ability to admit fault when he has failed. God wants to fill the church with men who can say they are wrong when THEY ARE WRONG. A man who is willing to humble himself before God and his family and say:"I was wrong." will find that his family has all the confidence in the world in him and will much more readily follow him. If he stubbornly refuses to repent or admit he was wrong, their confidence in him and in his leadership erodes. ↗

— Jim Anderson

#confidence #family #fault #following #honor

Children do not find fault with their parents until later. In the beginning, the love you get is the love that sets. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#family #faults #love #parents #family

Because he has never forgiven himself any fault, he can forgive no one else's. ↗

— Linda Berdoll

#forgiveness #mistakes #forgiveness

You'll notice you don't have both feet on the ground when you don't have any friends around ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#faults #friendship #life #reality #friendship

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality! ↗

— John Green

#funny #the-fault-in-our-stars #funny

It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do. ↗

— Sean Covey

#children #funny #parents #funny

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ... ↗

— John Geddes

#fault-lines #heals #heart #heartbreak #inspiration

He was marked out by his relentless ability to find fault with others' mediocrity--suggesting that a certain type of intelligence may be at heart nothing more or less than a superior capacity for dissatisfaction. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fault-finding #intelligence #mediocrity #intelligence

I think anybody who's doing work in their teen years on TV or in the movies, you're a teen idol by default. ↗

— Jason Bateman

#default #doing #i #i think #idol