#ge

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#obligation #privileged #right

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #sam-gamgee #inspirational

Crying is not an option. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#the-hunger-games #inspirational

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#author #relevance #writer #age

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded."... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be. ↗

— Donald O. Clifton

#strength-of-character #age

Every time I think about that girl, my mind commits a sin. ↗

— Jake Vander Ark

#coming-of-age #perfection #puppy-love #age

The boat is safer anchored at the port; but that’s not the aim of boats. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #the-pilgrimage #inspirational

You learn at a certain point that you have to focus on the business side of music. After getting ripped off a couple of times, you figure out that you need to get a grip on it. ↗

— Neal Schon

#business #certain #certain point #couple #figure

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#inspirational #knowledge #philosophy #inspirational