#owing

Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you a butterfly and a caterpillar. Would you ever put the two of them together? That's me and my memories. ↗

— Douglas Coupland

#memories #imagination

It's hard at times, but it makes a kid strong in ways that most people can't understand. Teaches them that even though people are left behind, new ones will inevitable take their place; that every place has something good - and bad - to offer. It makes a kid grow up fast. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#growing-up #hard-times #kids #life-lessons #logan-thibault

When I graduated from high school, the teacher said I was throwing my life away following music, and the same teacher invited me back to speak at the school. I don't say that to brag, I just want to be an example. ↗

— Big Sean

#back #brag #example #following #graduated

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#knowing #life #seeing #truth #life

You said you want to became Hokage. I have become the Kazekage. If you are willing to bear the name Kage, you have to do what you must do. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#life #manga #naruto #life

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor. ↗

— John Flanagan

#life

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#lessons-learned #life #man #life

That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#irony #life #mothers #people #life

Life is excellent or life blows, depending on how you look at it. ↗

— Carol Plum-Ucci

#life

We always have the necessary resources to face the storms that life throws at us, but most of the time,those resources are locked up in the depths of our heart and we waste an enormous amount of time trying to find them.By the time we've found them,we already been defeated by adversity. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#like-the-flowing-river #paulo-coelho #life