#nspirational

Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell. ↗

— David Rakoff

#friendship #inspirational #npr #the-scorpion-and-the-tortoise #this-american-life

When you grow up you, tend to get told that the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world, try not to bash into the walls too much, try to have a nice family, have fun, save a little money. That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader, once you discover one simple fact, and that is that everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#change

Small fruit is better than big words. ↗

— Jerry L. Lewis

#family #inspirational #self-help #family

You are the machos, the life, the future of our families. You are all that's left, so you must protect our mothers and grow and do good and have families of your own. I love you. I do. I do. ↗

— Victor Villaseñor

#family #inspirational #integrity #love #family

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#forgiving #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #letting-go #life

I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#family

They were almond cookies, although they could have been made of spinach and shoes for all I cared. I ate eleven of them, right in a row. It is rude to take the last cookie. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#food #humor #inspirational #manners #food

The first key to happiness, is to forgive. ↗

— Andrew Trinh

#life-lessons #motivation #forgiveness

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#inspirational #job-seeking #unemployment #forgiveness

Forgiveness in no way requires you to trust the one you forgive. It doesn't mean the relationship must be restored. p. 61 ↗

— Roberta Fish

#inspirational #forgiveness