#her

My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize. ↗

— Mike Honda

#during #family #ii #japanese #my own

I think you'll be a great teacher," said Gary. That's his role in my life: blind encourager and ambassador of false senses of security. ↗

— Matthew Norman

#teacher #life

Some people spend their whole life trying to be liked by others. Some people spend their whole life hoping to be liked for not trying to be liked by others. ↗

— Tim J. Brooks

#life

I can't help but think of the years and years of awful I’ve had. My years of horror and sadness just seem to never fully rest. This life of mine has been an absolute agony. ↗

— Sarah Ann Walker

#life

All My Tears: Poetry & Thoughts by Therone Shellman Copyright© (Late Jan 2013 release) What Are You Made of: Your belief system in regards to where you stand within the world are at the Core of everything you've done, was able to do, and will do. If you believe you don't have any control of your well-being, then what you will do and are capable of doing are based on this assumption. If you believe that you are at the center of all that has and will take place in your life, then you will make all possible effort to think and do that which will produce the results that you seek. ↗

— Therone Shellman

#quotes-to-define-my-life #therone-shellman #life

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together. ↗

— Steve Carlton

#came #catalyst #helped #over #pete

There's nothing gay about living life straight ↗

— Paul B. Tripp

#gay-and-lesbian #memoir #military #reparative-therapy #life

Pericles, he reflected, was a sad case. He'd been a postman all his life, a solid, reliable worker, until one Christmas when he had stolen all the gifts he was meant to deliver: wind-chimes, scented candles, Belgian chocolates, cowbells from the Bernese Oberland. Most of the haul had been lavished on his elderly mother; the rest he had stashed in his bedroom, which the old lady, being too frail to climb the stairs, no longer cleaned. ↗

— Alison Fell

#mother-son #postal #theft #life

My life is like a stroll upon the beach, as near to the ocean's edge as I can go. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat. ↗

— John le Carre

#become #cheat #childhood #detachment #ever