#hers

It is only by loving others that we can learn to live; living is rare nowadays...most people survive; that is all. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#god #hate #inspirational #judging-others #life

So once the zookeeper realized it was the monkeys who stole the bananas, he knew there was only one way he'd be able to get them back." "How?" I whispered. My throat was so sore. "Don't talk. He had to beat them in shuffleboard, of course." "What?" "I said don't talk. Monkeys love shuffleboard." He used a page from a homework assignment he'd failed and a stack of quarters to make a shuffleboard court. I watched the monkeys and the zookeepers have their showdown while I sipped the last of my applejuice. "Need more?" Graham asked me without looking up, when my straw skidded against the dry bottom of the box. "Uh uh." "You're supposed to drink juice." "I just drank some." "More, though." I shook my head. "Drink more juice or the monkeys are going to kill you. The only thing they love more than shuffleboard is beating up dehydrated sick boys. ↗

— Hannah Moskowitz

#monkeys #shuffleboard #sickness #love

You will never gain anyone's approval by begging for it. When you stand confident in your own worth, respect follows. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#approval-of-others #begging #confident #loving-yourself #people-pleaser

The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn. ↗

— Bertolt Brecht

#crazy #knowledge #learn #takes #taught

Mothers! They promise you they'll never get married again, and next thing you know you're a bridesmaid. ↗

— Mindy Schanback

#humor #marriage #mothers-and-daughters #marriage

I can't read your lips unless they touch mine. ↗

— Jaf Liethers

#grammar #impassioned #inspiring #jaf-liethers #kiss

We need teachers. We need to be teachers. Knowing when for each, is wisdom ↗

— Rick Beneteau

#wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote #wisdom-quotes #inspirational

It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us. ↗

— Emil Cioran

#men

Pray without ceasing on behalf of other men...For cannot he that falls rise again? ↗

— St. Ignatius of Antioch

#early-christianity #patristics #saints #men

As long as there have been men and they have lived, they have all felt this tragic ambiguity of their condition, but as long as there have been philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#existentialism #philosophers #men