#par

Avoid providing material for the drama that is always stretched tight between parents and children; it uses up much of the children’s strength and wastes the love of the elders, which acts and warms even if it doesn’t comprehend. Don’t ask for advice from them and don’t expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is strength and blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#children #love #parent #parents #unconditional-love

Percy says be talked to a Nereid in Charleston Harbor!” “Good for him!” Leo yelled back. “The Nereid said we should seek help from Chiron’s brothers.” “What does that mean? The Party Ponies?” Leo had never met Chiron’s crazy centaur relatives, but he’d heard rumors of Nerf sword-fights, root beer-chugging contests, and Super Soakers filled with pressurized whipped cream. “Not sure,” Annabeth said. “But I’ve got coordinates. Can you input latitude and longitude in this thing?” “I can input star charts and order you a smoothie, if you want. Of course I can do latitude and longitude! ↗

— Rick Riordan

#chiron #family #heroes-of-olympus #humor #leo-valdez

The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#religion #faith

Love, hope, fear, faith - these make humanity; These are its sign and note and character ↗

— Robert Browning

#paracelsus #robert-browning #faith

You are mine, woman, and I am yours. Until you, my life was desolate. I existed, but I didn't truly live. Now I live, even in my death. ↗

— Gena Showalter

#romance #death

You are where you need to be. Just take a deep breath. ↗

— Lana Parrilla

#faith #feather #hope #lana-parrilla #life

we can learn to trust our maternal selves and to have faith in the innate goodness and purity of our children - even when we feel overwhelmed and the kids are pushing all our buttons. we can support one another....we can be understanding of each other and easier on ourselves. ↗

— Katrina Kenison

#faith

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. ↗

— Loyd Auerbach

#science #faith

After all the thousand times I've told you I love you, how could you let one word break your faith in me? ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#faith

I show my scars so that others know they can heal. ↗

— Rhachelle Nicol'

#healing #hope #scars #transparency #faith