#ring

We gotta start teaching our daughters to be somebodies instead of somebody's. ↗

— Kifah Shah

#daughters #empowering #inspirational #mothers #women

There is no need to suffer silently and there is no shame in seeking help. ↗

— Joel S. Manuel

#help #inspirational #life #science #suffering

It's hard to know, isn't it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,' Grandma continued. 'I happen to think it's both. There's sin, but through it all, He takes the mess we make and paints a masterpiece. In fact, I'm quite certain that before God can ever bless a woman—and use her to impact many—He uses the hammer, the file, and the furnace to do a holy work. ↗

— Tricia Goyer

#redemption #sovereignty-of-god #suffering #inspirational

Life goes on just like summer goes to rain. But remember there will always be a rainbow after the rain. Always. ↗

— Dulara Perera

#inspirational

It's the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story ↗

— Yann Martel Life of Pi

#life #life-of-pi #richard-parker #inspirational

Censors never go after books unless kids already like them. I don’t even think they know to go after books until they know that children are interested in reading this book, therefore there must be something in it that’s wrong. ↗

— Judy Blume

#censoring #censors #censorship #censure #first-amendment

In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and even clothes, the discussion of fur is childish. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #childish #clothes #clothing #create

And, in a funny way, each death is different and you mourn each death differently and each death brings back the death you mourned earlier and you get into a bit of a pile-up. ↗

— Nigella Lawson

#bit #brings #death #different #differently

War springs from the love and loyalty which should be offered to God being applied to some God substitute, one of the most dangerous being nationalism. ↗

— Robert Runcie

#being #dangerous #god #love #loyalty

Men always seemed to growl and sniff around each other, bristling over nothing, and just as suddenly become buddies at the least likely moments. ↗

— Christine Feehan

#men #posturing #men