#hood

DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck) ↗

— Frank Chase Jr.

#healing #journey #life #manhood #masculinity

اللهم قنى شر الحرص و الحذر و الحيطة,و أحينى طفلاً شجاعاً و أمتنى طفلاً شجاعاً.اللهم إنى لا أريد أن أكون محنكاً أبداً. أريد لقلبى أن ينفجر و هو يقول ما فيه,و لا أريده أن يموت مطوياً على سره. هذه حياتى و لست أملك حياة غيرها. ↗

— مصطفى محمود

#children #humanity #life #life

Childhood is the most valuable thing that's taken away from you in life, if you think about it. ↗

— Heather O'Neill

#sad #life

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#childhood #life

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life. ↗

— Isadora James

#life

I know,” said Peter. “Perhaps better than anyone. But you can’t stay a child forever. To choose to speak into Echo’s Well is to choose illusion. To choose to avoid the responsibilities of being an adult. The real trick—the real choice—is to keep the best of the child you were, without forgetting when you grow up. “It is the best of both worlds, Jack. Being a child is to believe in magic everywhere… “…but even Peter Pan had to grow up one day. ↗

— James A. Owen

#childhood #inspirational #jack #life #peter-pan

It will be the kiss by which all others in your life will be judged... and found wanting. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#life #love #life

There are two questions a man must ask himself: The first is 'Where am I going?' and the second is 'Who will go with me?' If you ever get these questions in the wrong order you are in trouble. ↗

— Sam Keen

#clinging #codependency #dysfunctional-relationship #howard-thurman #manhood

Ne, nisu jučer ubili majku, srušili kuću. Ubili su, babo, moje djetinjstvo, mladost, snove, sav moj život. ↗

— Nura Bazdulj-Hubijar

#bosnian-war #childhood #childhood-suffering #life #war

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#fool #happiest-time-of-your-life #liar #life