#gr

So, as a seventh grader,no, you weren't friends with people you didnt like. But sometimesyou also werent friends with people you did like, which was complicated, and which didnt make any sence if you tried to explain it. Sometimes things just changed. Thats where the sadness came in. ↗

— Lauren Myracle

#complicated #friends #like #sadness #seventh-grade

I clenched my teeth and fists to stop them biting and scratching these clever men who want no care for the helpless sick small, who use religions and politics to stay comfortably superior to all that pain: who make religions and politics, excuses to spread misery with fire and sword and how could I stop all this? I did not know what to do. ↗

— Alasdair Gray

#feminism #frustration #patriarchy #politics #progress

They often say, “What’s the point in astrology if you can’t change your destiny?”. Well, it’s true that you can’t change your destiny, but still it helps knowing about gravity. ↗

— Kedar Joshi

#destiny #gravity #science #change

Gratitude doesn't change the scenery.  It merely washes clean the glass you look through so you can clearly see the colors. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#colors #gratefulness #gratitude #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Integrity is the sentry for the conscious soul. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honesty #integrity #leadership #truth #inspirational

I can't blame most people if they don't read a lot. Because they have their own preferences. If they find an article long, they won't even finish. So as to say, I am glad I have the love for "reading" for it nourishes your soul and yourself from ideas and thoughts of others, there is always something to learn. I just hope this sad fact of not reading well be not another reason of ignorance in judging someone. But I know this is one reason why also a lot of people are poor in spelling. It is not about finishing your studies in high school or an undergrad student in college. Learning is inevitable, lifetime and forever as long as you live. But learning will only happen to those who have interest in improving themselves, upgrading their knowledge and reaching out for a better self. ↗

— Sofia Ann

#ignorance #improving #interest #knowledge #reading

I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#love #prefer #regret #love

I often feel the pressure, from my peers and others, to come out and “take a stand” on a moral or social issue. Typically, I refuse to do so, or at least I refuse to do so in a way that will please my critics. On so many of the hard and divisive issues of our times, I don’t close my eyes. I do stand for something: I stand for love. For if Jesus came, not to condemn the world, but to redeem it, how can we who bear the Name respond any differently? Yes, what I believe about all these moral and social issues matters, without a doubt. But these beliefs mean nothing, if my first and consuming conviction is not love for those who are different and believe differently than me. We have a choice: We can choose to show how “right” we are, or we can choose to love. Sometimes, it is impossible to do both at the same time. ↗

— Ronnie McBrayer

#judgement #love #love

You can’t truly heal from a loss until you allow yourself to really FEEL the loss. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#endings #feelings #grief #grieve #grieving

Mean girls go far in high school. Kind women go far in LIFE. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-loving #grace #helping-people #high-school #kind-women