#ren

We think of communication as words. But a screaming child is trying to say something. A tantrum carries a message. Hitting is communication. Sleep patterns carry a message. Even the sulky belligerence of a teen is an attempt to convey a message. Everything the child does says something to the person who is willing to take the time to listen carefully. ↗

— Christopher Page

#communication

What a terrible thing it is for children to see death, you say. We have it all wrong. If you make a child terrified of death, he won't embrace it so easily. And death must be embraced if you wish to follow Christ. Listen to His teaching. 'Unless you become like a child...and unless you take up your cross daily, you cannot enter the kingdom of heaven.' One is not valuable without the other. Janjic Jovic, The Dance of the Dead, 1959 ↗

— Ted Dekker

#death #following-christ #death

He turned one of his death rays into an ice cream maker, except he said I shouldn’t eat too much of it at once.” I nodded slowly. “Right,” I said. “That’s…sweet, I think. ↗

— Acacia Ackles

#odd-childhood #scott #strange-parents #villains #death

Even from a distance, their eyes conveyed the strength of their souls. And their eyes spoke of death. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#strength #death

...And that, my friend, is why Brendan Fraser sucks. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#powers #death

The primary difference between sex and death is, with death there is no dress code ↗

— Josh Stern

#difference #dress-code #humor #sex #death

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#been #being #could #damn #feared

There is death in the folds of her skirt and blood about her feet. She is for no man. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#reign-of-terror #the-rover #death

Min aska kommer sprida värme. ↗

— Leon Noips

#sarcasm #self-awareness #death

I also think a Hot Mom is someone who can connect with what's current in her kids' world. ↗

— Jami Gertz

#connect #current #her #hot #i