#ife

My very first recollection of life on earth was waking up in bed with my mother, and she was showing me a picture of my father, Charles Jackson, with a group of soldiers. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#charles #earth #father #first #group

I really don't know anything else because my brothers were famous when I was two years old. So I know nothing else, no other life. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#because #brothers #else #famous #i

When I was younger, I thought you had to be in control of your own life. That takes a lot of discipline, hard work and focus. You just can't let it all fall by the wayside. Later on, I learned that God is really in control of everything. But you still have to put your best foot forward and be the best you can possibly be. ↗

— Janet Jackson

#control #discipline #everything #fall #focus

To see him there lifeless and breathless was very emotional for me. But I held myself together because I knew he's very much alive in his spirit, and that was just a shell. But I kissed him on his forehead, and I hugged him, and I touched him and I said, 'Michael, I'll never leave you. You'll never leave me.' ↗

— Jermaine Jackson

#because #breathless #emotional #forehead #held

The law protects you from being abused. It doesn't threaten your lifestyle for someone else to have the right to exhibit their lifestyle. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#else #exhibit #law #lifestyle #protects

People internalize, from the jail to student loan debt, to credit card debt, to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways, in people's home lives, domestic stuff. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#collective #credit #credit card #debt #domestic

So many bright stars, bright in life, burn out quickly. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#burn #life #many #out #quickly

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#eragon #inheritance #inheritance-cycle #inspirational #life

Those powers that control the tent are not threatened at all by any activity that you engage in, in the shadows, that's not moving toward the tent. And I am rather convinced that we have a generation that is so preoccupied with life in the shadows, they never even focus on getting to the sunlight where you open up the big tent. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#am #any #big #control #convinced

But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star. ↗

— Victoria Jackson

#believe #christ #goal #happiness #him