#relationships

I am sorry for him; I couldn't be angry with him if I tried. Who suffers by his ill whims? Himself always. Here he takes it into his head to dislike us, and he won't come and dine with us. What's the consequence? He don't lose much of a dinner." "Indeed, I think he loses a very good dinner," interrupted Scrooge's niece. Everybody else said the same, and they must be allowed to have been competent judges, because they had just had dinner; and, with the dessert upon the table, were clustered round the fire, by lamp-light. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#relationships #family

That so many thousands of children around the world are available for adoption is a sign of our impoverished humanity. That so many persons around the world open their hearts and homes each year to embrace a few of these children is a lasting testimony to humanity's enduring nobility. ↗

— Deborah A. Beasley

#deborah-beasley #family-relationships #foster-care #parenting #psycology

We all think when we’re young that we want excitement and highs and passion. To hell with ordinary.” I smiled and she chuckled. “But when we find ourselves in these adult bodies,” she said. “When we wise up a little, or get slapped in the face by life, we realize we just want all things to be equal.” She put the heels of her hands together near her heart like the Yoga prayer position. “And we want to understand them better. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#glass-girl #grief #laura-anderson-kurk #meg-kavanagh #relationships

Cause at the end of the day, honestly, at the end of the day when you're in your death bed and that's it, I think it's the relationships you've had and the people that you've touched and the people that have touched you that matter. ↗

— Julie Benz

#cause #day #death #end #end of the day

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

Learners are encouraged to discover facts and relationships for themselves. ↗

— Jerome Bruner

#encouraged #facts #learners #relationships #themselves

The secret of all effective advertising is not the creation of new and tricky words and pictures, but one of putting familiar words and pictures into new relationships. ↗

— Leo Burnett

#creation #effective #familiar #into #new

Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#male-female-relationships #relationship

Value your friendship. Value your relationships. ↗

— Barbara Bush

#relationships #value #your

because in the past words have only driven them apart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#relationship