#relationship

If we're to be judged by our parents and grandparents, then we all may as well impale ourselves upon jagged bits of rock. ↗

— Kristin Cashore

#judgment #family

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

— Jerry L. Lewis

#growth #inspirational #love #motivation #relationships

Failed relationships can be described as so much wasted makeup. Forget the laughs, forget the fights, forget the sex, forget the jealousy. But take off your hat and observe a moment's silence for the legions of unknown tubes of foundation, mascara, eyeliner, blusher and lipstick who died that it might all have been possible. But who died in vain. ↗

— Marian Keyes

#makeup #relationships #family

...I’m sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers... ↗

— Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford

#family

Dear Uncle Bernard - Your niece Frances - a four-eyed, French-plaited platypus awaiting the evaporation of h baby fat - thanks you very much for the romantic advice. But I've never been one to spend time thinking about why men and women take to each other, or why they don't. I think it can turn a lady neurotic, a term I despise but also am loath to have turned in my direction. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#relationship #romantic-advice #friendship

Mr. Stegall has birthed a very important book that will help us as a people go to the next level. This book is very important because it's tackling issues that many brush under the rug. Mr. Stegall has proven that he's been given a message that the world should hear and this book is proof of that. Because of his insight and wisdom, this book will reach areas and points that other books around this topic have not. This is definitely a book we need! ↗

— Tony Gaskins Jr.

#from-the-hands-of-delilah #mo-stegall #family

You and I are so different: I am one word at a time one foot in front of the other, slowly, always testing how surely footing is before proceeding to the next sentence with ruminative breaks for buttered toast and coffee. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#relationships #friendship

It was a sickening, humbling, maddeningly powerless sensation this watching them and waiting for them to come to him. For the time they could be a family again. But Mickey did it like one’s tongue pointlessly finds a mouth sore over and over again, half to see if it was still there, half to see if it still hurt. ↗

— Genevieve Dewey

#family

the harsh truth of every relationship, even between those who love each other, like fathers and sons and daughters, or husbands and wives, is that the love is always unequal. ↗

— Karl Taro Greenfeld

#love #family

It makes me think that a marriage of true minds - to again quote Shakespeare - is in many ways just dumb luck. ↗

— Carlene Bauer

#marriage #relationships #friendship