#ions

You can't expect everyone to have the same dedication as you. ↗

— Jeff Kinney

#kids

She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. Cables resembling giant metal noodles snaked across the floor and ran up the walls. “How does that thing even work?” Percy asked. “No idea,” Annabeth said. “And I’m the only one besides Leo who can operate it.” “That’s reassuring.” “It should be fine. It’s only threatened to blow up once.” “You’re kidding, I hope.” She smiled. “Come on. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#explosions #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez #mechanics

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside. ↗

— Wm. Paul Young

#pain #relationships #relationships

What you want most you push away from you. You want more than you care to admit. ↗

— Tarjei Vesaas

#relationships

I have learned this: it is not what one does that is wrong, but what one becomes as a consequence of it. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#action

Watch your thoughts for they become words. Watch your words for they become actions. Watch your actions for they become habits. Watch your habits for they become your character. And watch your character for it becomes your destiny. What we think, we become. My father always said that... and I think I am fine. ↗

— Margaret Thatcher

#character #destiny #habits #thoughts #words

A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#democracy #elections #voters #character

It is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ↗

— Abraham Harold Maslow

#instrumentalism #problem-solving #problems

Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#dreams

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#cry #crying #decisions #right