#others

Once, not too long ago, you were the good brother. You were careful with everyone's feelings. It was fucking ridiculous how polite and thoughtful you were. You've changed man. Cant believe I'm saying this, but I miss that guy. He was someone I always admired. I couldn't be proud of my choices, but I was always so damn proud of yours. ↗

— Abbi Glines

#change

You men never change. Is that all you can see? Proud grandfathers of a large....” Mrs. Werner smacked her husband upside the head and took the pictures away. ↗

— Melisa M. Hamling

#mothers #change

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fears #keep #others #share #your

...give yourself permission to change your world and others around you, in a positive way, with love and respect. ↗

— Tasha Hoggatt

#love #respecting-others #change

Neither with those nor with the others, with all I agree and dissent; in all part of truth and part of error must be seen. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#dissent #error #i #must #neither

A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#forgiveness #forgiveness-chance-love-equality #forgiving #forgiving-others #forgiving-yourself

The higher one climbs on the spiritual ladder, the more they will grant others their own freedom, and give less interference to another's state of consciousness. ↗

— Paul Twitchell

#climbs #consciousness #freedom #give #grant

I wanted only a familiar voice, someone who knew me. Not some earlier, larval version of myself. . . ↗

— Jennifer Haigh

#companionship #family #growing-up #secrets #sisters

I wonder if other mothers feel a tug at their insides, watching their children grow up into the people they themselves wanted so badly to be. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers #people #faith

No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

#because #bed #blanket #children #crooked