#ration

Everyone has crap in their background, everyone has things they wish they could undo. But most people don't go around doing their best to screw up their present lives because of it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#inspirational #humor

Cheer Up the worst is yet to come! ↗

— Barbara Johnson

#inspirational #humor

Be With Me In The Phases Of My Work Because My Brain Feels Like It Has Been Whipped And I Yearn To Make A Small Perfect Thing Which Will Live In Your Morning Like Curious Static Through A President's Elegy Or A Nude Hunchback Acquiring A Tan On The Crowded Oily Beach. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#humor #inspiration #science #humor

Because nobody but a reader ever became a writer. ↗

— Richard Peck

#inspirational #inspirational

We all fall sometime but it's those that get back up and try again that make the difference. ↗

— Gary Revel

#perseverance #inspirational

Amber laughed. "What makes you think I'd marry you?" "What makes you think you'd have a choice?" "I'm not into bad guys," she said. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#humor #inspirational #romance #humor

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around. ↗

— Jerry L. Lewis

#growth #inspirational #love #motivation #relationships

He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#girls #inspirational #touching #family

Then he asked me to tell him some stories about India, about America, about Italy, about my family. That's when I realized that I am not Ketut Liyer's English teacher, nor am I exactly his theological student, but I am the merest and simplest of pleasures for this old medicine man- I am his company. I'm somebody he can talk to because he enjoys hearing about the world and he hasn't had much of a chance to see it. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#family

After living in Smokey Hollow these three months my bearded face was darkened to a tan, and for more than a moment, I couldn't tell what color I was. Black is what I saw and what I expected to see. I grabbed a towel and rubbed to get a clear look. No, I was white. At least my skin was. I had been through so much with my family here, and all I had seen was black faces, that I forgot for a split second that I wasn't black too. For weeks after the flood in the bathroom, I remembered the morning I forgot my skin color. ↗

— Peter Jenkins

#family