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The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#christianity #morality #family

It was the sibling thing, I suppose. I was fascinated by the intricate tangle of love and duty and resentment that tied them together. The glances they exchanged; the complicated balance of power established over decades; the games I would never play with rules I would never fully understand. And perhaps that was key: they were such a natural group that they made me feel remarkably singular by comparison. To watch them together was to know strongly, painfully, all that I'd been missing. ↗

— Kate Morton

#love #siblings #sorrow #family

Do other mothers behold their newborn sons as I did? Do they all find themselves stopped, breathless, in what they were doing to merely stare, in wonder, at the tiny life before them? ↗

— Elizabeth C. Bunce

#family

There's always a way," his sister lectured. "We'll need help, though." "What help?" Amy grinned. "Sometimes it doesn't hurt to be a part of the most powerful family in human history. ↗

— Gordon Korman

#family

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. ↗

— Donald Miller

#family

Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us. ↗

— J.G. Ballard

#normalcy #the-trouble-with-forgetting #life

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#depart #ever #eye #forgive #ghost

Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#friends #friendships #money #wealth #friendship

Dont brag about being perfect..imperfections are what makes you attractive.. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#life #perfection #wisdom #life

I wanted to fall; good thing you pushed me. ↗

— Mihail Drumeş

#love #sadness #tragic #love