#sons

Mitch,if you're trying to show off for people at the top,forget it.They will look down at you anyhow.And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom,forget it.They will only envy you.Status will get you nowhere.Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#equality

The moment you put someone on a pedestal they will look down upon you. The trick is respecting each other equally. ↗

— Teresa Mummert

#couples #life #life-lessons #relationships #respect

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#days #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #philosophy

Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out. ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#kindlehighlight #life-lessons #experience

Just like there's always time for pain, there's always time for healing. ↗

— Jennifer Brown

#life-lessons #pain #traumatic-experiences #experience

In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back. ↗

— Charlie Brown

#life #life-experience #life-lesson #life-lessons #experience

Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. ↗

— Bohdi Sanders

#excellence #good-books #happin #inspirational #inspirational-life

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#each #failings #forgive #friends #little

In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#consolation #life-lessons #sorrow #experience

I was a new person then, I knew things I had not known before, I knew things that you can know only if you have been through what I had just been through. ↗

— Jamaica Kincaid

#life-lessons #experience