#sons

He turns to the painting. "I fear Mark was right." "Who is Mark?" "A silly little boy who runs after George Boleyn. I once heard him say I looked like a murderer." Gregory says, "Did you not know? ↗

— Hilary Mantel

#fathers-and-sons #family

Already he knew that to overdo a thing is to destroy it. ↗

— Elizabeth Enright

#fragilty #life-lessons #overdoing #simplicity #family

Look closely into the eyes of those around you, it is always you looking right back, admiring, observing, and trying to tell you that We are One ↗

— Martin Suarez

#family #life-lessons #sisters #unity #we-are-one

Look at All of them.they always feel that school is like a family. No one is upper or lower class except for few people who never really understood themselves". ↗

— Fahmid Hassan Prohor

#family

Parla Come Mangi' --It is a common way to say 'be simple', 'don't try to be rhetorical' literaly: 'speak the way you eat ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#lessons #life #food

Giving does not only preceed receiving; it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#free #freely-give #generous #generousity #gifts

What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control ↗

— Denzel Washington

#forgiveness

The first key to happiness, is to forgive. ↗

— Andrew Trinh

#life-lessons #motivation #forgiveness

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] ↗

— Don Henley

#learning #lessons #letting-go #life #forgiveness

Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#life-lessons #life