#sons

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#lessons #mistakes #only

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year. ↗

— Leonard Alfred George Strong

#fond #i #i am #me #much

Civilization is the making of civil persons. ↗

— John Ruskin

#civilization #making #persons

The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#bring #how #imagination #just #language

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons. ↗

— Richard Wright

#copied #hearts #men #prisons #realities

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;! ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#ataraxy #coming-of-age #fathers-and-sons #philosophical #age

Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence. Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance. Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence. Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#autumn #fall #life #seasons #spring

Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. ↗

— Brian Rathbone

#life-experience #life-lessons #wisdom #age

Oh gravity, thou art a heartless bitch. ↗

— Jim Parsons

#cooper #jim #parsons #sheldon #art

At an age when most children are playing hopscotch or with their dolls,you, poor child, who had no friends or toys, you toyed with dreams of murder, because that is a game to play alone. ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

#murder #age