#pa

First your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#life

I suddenly remember being very little and being embraced by my father. I would try to put my arms around my father's waist, hug him back. I could never reach the whole way around the equator of his body; he was that much larger than life. Then one day, I could do it. I held him, instead of him holding me, and all I wanted at that moment was to have it back the other way. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#hold #hug #parent #picoult #life

There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#experience

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#past #present #life

Every life deserves a certain amount of dignity, no matter how poor or damaged the shell that carries it. ↗

— Rick Bragg

#dignity #poverty #life

Never be ashamed,’ he said. ‘Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be tasted; some should only be sipped, but with others, drink the whole bottle.’ ‘How will I know which is which?’ ‘By the taste. You can only know a good wine if you have first tasted a bad one. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #life

Joy multiplies when it is shared among friends, but grief diminishes with every division. That is life. ↗

— R.A. Salvatore

#companionship #joy #life

It’s not so much the journey that’s important; as is the way that we treat those we encounter and those around us, along the way ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#journey #life #love #respect #life

I think when you become a parent you go from being a star in the movie of your own life to the supporting player in the movie of someone else's. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

#life #parents #life

There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle. ↗

— J. Sterling

#fight #insparation #lose #mature-ya #wisdom