#pa

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

Sometimes, kids want you to hurt the way they hurt. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#parenting #life

I realized that the deepest spiritual lessons are not learned by His letting us have our way in the end, but by His making us wait, bearing with us in love and patience until we are able to honestly to pray what He taught His disciples to pray: Thy will be done. ↗

— Elisabeth Elliot

#lessons #love #patience #waiting #life

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#buddhism #dhammapada #life

Try looking at your mind as a wayward puppy that you are trying to paper train. You don't drop-kick a puppy into the neighbor's yard every time it piddles on the floor. You just keep bringing it back to the newspaper. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#writing #life

Life sucks. And then you die. [Jacob Black] ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#jacob-black #twilight-saga #life

Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence. ↗

— Noah Levine

#compassion #god #life #life

Everyone is down on pain, because they forget something important about it: Pain is for the living. Only the dead don't feel it. (Harry Dresden) ↗

— Jim Butcher

#life #pain #wisdom #life

It hurt, remembering. Hurt because there was so much I'd done, so much I'd yet to do. In so many different ways, I now realized, not remembering had been a blessing. A brief respite in the twisted bloody mess that my life had become. But at least I knew who I was. ↗

— Keri Arthur

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #romance #life

If you have one parent who loves you, even if they can't buy you clothes, they're so poor and they make all kinds of mistakes and maybe sometimes they even give you awful advice, but never for one moment do you doubt their love for you--if you have this, you have incredibly good fortune. If you have two parents who love you? You have won life's Lotto. If you do not have parents, or if the parents you have are so broken and so, frankly, terrible that they are no improvement over nothing, this is fine. It's not ideal because it's harder without adults who love you more than they love themselves. But harder is just harder, that's all. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#moving-on #parents #life