#sons

The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in. ↗

— James Baldwin

#individuality #inspirational-quotes #life #life-lessons #courage

The first time I asked the man in the mirror to change me, he made me worse . I asked him again a few months later, the glass shattered into millions of pieces and scratched my face. I guess ü gotta' be happy with who ü r. ↗

— Tristyn Lippingwell

#change

You just stood up to your mother.... I should think now you could take on the world. ↗

— Elizabeth Strout

#mother #mothers #mothers-and-sons #standing-your-ground #courage

The harder you slam a ball into the ground, the higher it bounces back up... A divorce, a breakup, losing a job, or just feeling seriously down can ground you, rough you up a bit, leave calluses on your feet and grit under your finger nails. But more than that, it leaves you wiser and stronger next time... Life is about experiencing opposites isn’t it? ↗

— Laurel House

#dating-advice #heartbreak #lessons-learned #dating

It's matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. ↗

— Mello Death Note

#life-and-death #life-lessons #death

Summertime is always the best of what might be. ↗

— Charles Bowden

#juarez #mexico #seasons #summer #death

Still, he figured, sometimes you've got to do what you've got to do, and then sometimes you've just got to run like hell after it's done. ↗

— Derek Landy

#getting-things-done #gotta-do-what-you-gotta-do #life #life-lessons #responsibility

...perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons #smart

Student: I don't feel like living anymore. Teacher: If you don't feel like doing something then don't do. This means that in finding many ways how not to live your life, you have the possibility to discover how to live your life. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#life-and-death #life-lessons #death

...and understand that there are far, far worse things in the living world than dying. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#dying #harry-potter #j-k-rowling #knowledge #lessons