#lt

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about. ↗

— Pete McCarthy

#guilt #education

(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#education #feelings #sir-walter-scott #education

Adults have the benefit of experience and know the trick will work as long as the technique is correct. When we “grow up” we gain this experience and knowledge, but we lose our innocence and sense of wonder. In other words, the price we pay for growing up is a permanent sense of loss. ↗

— Alberto Alvaro Ríos

#innocence #life #experience

I like that girl more than I can remember likin’ anything in my life. I’m not about to give her up. I’ll start carin’ about what other people think when I’m six feet under. ↗

— Simone Elkeles

#young-adult-fiction #young-adult-romance #life

Our eyes met and locked as the song came to a halt, followed by a screaming conclusion from the crowd, girls around us pressing me into the stage, forcing all the air out of my lungs, but I’d forgotten about doing anything so basic as breathing. ↗

— Emme Rollins

#concerts #crowd #crowded #new-adult #new-adult-romance

As a columnist, I realize that whatever amount of corruption I expose, half my readers will block it out, although they may get a frisson of joy in the process. ↗

— Margaret Carlson

#amount #block #columnist #corruption #expose

Hope was never meant to be A future shared alone, As life cannot be won or lost It was never ours to own. ↗

— Frederic M. Perrin

#young-adult #young-adult-fantasy #life

But life doesn't turn out the way you expect. Ever. - Iris from What Comes After ↗

— Steve Watkins

#young-adult #inspirational

Life can be as easy as you wish to make it, or as difficult as you are prepared to believe that it is. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#difficult #easy #life #prepared #life

When life is difficult, try looking up at the night sky. A million stars proclaim aloud His Handiwork. And you know you are never alone. ↗

— Anusha Atukorala

#difficult #god #handiwork #life #never