#rational

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing. ↗

— Chris Fabry

#life-lesson #marriage-advice #family

I've remembered that most of life is about small, essential connections, so unobtrusive, so elastic, that you scarcely realize they're actually holding you together. The big ones-the great, grand emotional bonds-those are the ones that break, the ones that fail you, the ones that give way and send you careening toward the foot of the bleak and jagged canyon. It's the tough, gnarled, unadorned ties that really do bind, that never let you fall all the way down into darkness. ↗

— Sharon Shinn

#family-relationships #friends #inspirational #family

Maybe I'm deceiving myself. Perhaps I don't know him as well as I'd like to imagine. What does a person so willing to utterly remake himself hold inside his heart? Can I trust such a man? What motivates him? In an instant she knew, and she felt a bit of relief. Love. Love was what drove him. ↗

— David Bowles

#inspirational #motivation #romance #family

This is my country, that is your country, these are the conceptions of narrow souls, to the liberal minded the whole world is a family ↗

— Virchand Raghavji Gandhi

#country #family #inpirational-quotes #liberal #motivational-quotes

You can give me anything?" he asked. "Anything!" Lucifer cried. "Anything I ask for?" "Anything you desire!" "Can you give me love?" Ammon asked him. "Can you take away my sins? Can you give me salvation? Are you willing to die for me? Can you give me the love of my family and the love of my friends? Can you promise me anything besides what you have shown me here? Can you give me the love of my Father, or my older brother, Jehovah, the Christ? ↗

— Chris Stewart

#family

Everyone has too much of something, whether it’s time, talent or treasure. Everyone does have their own half, you just have to find it. ↗

— Hannah Salwen

#motivational #family

Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#hope #inspirational #recovery #family

She smiled and feigned enthusiasm, although she cared little for the game. Sometimes that's what you did for the people you loved. ↗

— Julie Klassen

#inspirational #family

We all fight for money, some for power, but most of all for love. But me, I fight to become a champion. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#book #boxing #boxing-champion #drama #family

Who should we be trying to make the most proud? Our family? Our friends? Our teachers or bosses? What about the one who molded us out of the earth itself, who formed us like clay, and instilled within us the very breath of life that shaped the universe? ↗

— James D. Maxon

#inspirational #motivational #religious #family