#ily

No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a really nice man who wishes she were not. ↗

— Mary Catherine Bateson

#discover #happily #her #how #man

It struck me that the beauty we attribute to children isn’t something they have that we don’t. It's something they do, which we have long since stopped doing—just describing things as we see them, the simple, unadorned facts. ↗

— Christina Carson

#family #native #solving-human-dilemmas #beauty

My family was something precious, like jewelry, like a necklace you never take off. ↗

— Indira Ganesan

#beauty

He waited for me to take his hand, smiling down at me with the same smile that was so beautiful, I knew this could not possibly end well for me. ↗

— Kelley R. Martin

#beauty

Images of an ancient race of beautiful but savage immortals danced through my head. It was hard to believe such a world of make-believe actually existed. ↗

— Kelley R. Martin

#beauty

Home is where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. ↗

— Robert Frost

#home #family

Your children are the greatest gift God will give to you, and their souls the heaviest responsibility He will place in your hands. Take time with them, teach them to have faith in God. Be a person in whom they can have faith. When you are old, nothing else you've done will have mattered as much. ↗

— Lisa Wingate

#faith #family #parenting #faith

...my family despised Faberge objects as emblems of grotesque garishness. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#family

I didn't have any of those good assets to have successful teenage years. It was hard. And what saved me was definitely my whole family. I knew where I was coming from and where I was going to. ↗

— Celine Dion

#assets #coming #definitely #family #going

I believe this: You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and goddamn it, you refuse to let it get to you. you fight. you cry. You curse. Then you go about your business of living. That's how I've done it. There's no other way. ↗

— Marilyn Monroe

#life #marilyn-monroe #sad #self-esteem #strength