#ives

But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#john-steinbeck #lives #money #the-grapes-of-wrath #value

Hermes gazed up at the stars. 'My dear young cousin, if there's one thing I've learned over the eons, it's that you can't give up on your family, no matter how tempting they make it. It doesn't matter if they hate you, or embarrass you, or simply don't appreciate your genius for inventing the Internet-- ↗

— Rick Riordan

#relatives #family

God gave us our relatives; thank God we can choose our friends. ↗

— Ethel Watts Mumford

#friends #gave #god #our #relatives

I think, head up and shoulders back. Not only does it make you look taller and thinner but it gives you confidence and boosts your self-esteem. ↗

— Shelley Long

#boosts #confidence #does #gives #head

There is something in even the darkest situations that we can make a positive in our lives. ↗

— Deborah Norville

#even #lives #make #our #our lives

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover. ↗

— Marge Piercy

#lover #pleasure #sex

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days. ↗

— Plutarch

#celebrated #childhood #continue #days #ignorant

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process, which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen. ↗

— Alexis Arguello

#athlete #beauty #carry #citizen #destroying

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling. ↗

— Yakov Smirnoff

#between #busy #feeling #give #important

Although she was a logical, practical person, she believed that in books there existed a kind of magic. Between the aging covers on these shelves, contained in tiny, abstract black marks on sheets of paper, were voices from the past. Voices that reached into the future, into Claire's own heart and mind, to tell her what they knew, what they'd learned, what they'd seen, what they'd felt. Wasn't that magic? ↗

— Christi Phillips

#magic #old-books #voices #age