#kind

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn’t respond to our needs and requests. ↗

— Gerald Lawson Sittser

#faith

Getekend is een duizelingwekkend mooi familie-epos dat een halve eeuw bestrijkt. ↗

— Judy Lohman

#family

People who love themselves come across as very loving, generous and kind; they express their self-confidence through humility, forgiveness and inclusiveness. ↗

— Sanaya Roman

#inspirational #kindness #self-love #forgiveness

To renounce freedom is to renounce one's humanity, one's rights as a man and equally one's duties. ↗

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

#mankind #equality

Eisenhower has been much criticized for his failure publicly to endorse the Court's decision. But he felt that doing so would set an undesirable precedent. If a president endorsed decisions he agreed with, might he feel compelled to oppose decisions he did not agree with? And what would that do to the rule of law? "The Supreme Court has spoken and I am sworn to uphold ... the constitutional processes.... I will obey."3 ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

and line of cases. Justice Byron R. "Whizzer" White, a JFK appointee, dissented, calling Doe an act of "raw judicial power," as it took these decisions from the states and enshrined their determination in the Supreme Court's reasoning. ↗

— William J. Bennett

#freedom

I have been so very, very fortunate in my life. I've met or been in contact with several of my childhood heroes. I've interacted with people all over this planet, and even though I couldn't possibly hope to remember all their names, I remember a photograph, a poem, a sound, a joke, kind words of encouragement. All is not lost. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#encouragement #friendship #good-fortune #heroes #interaction

Wanneer kinderen groter worden verdedigen ze hun geheimen uit alle macht. Anders zouden ze door hun moeders worden verslonden. Het ergste wat ik ken zijn jongelui die alles met hun moeder delen. Die worden nooit vrij. ↗

— Marianne Fredriksson

#moeders #friendship

I like how you don't hide your problems like everyone else, and I don't have to hide mine when I'm around you. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#its-kind-of-a-funny-story #ned-vizinni #funny

So now live for real, Craig. Live. Live. Live. Live. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#funny