#tee

But I understood, now, that we don’t live only for ourselves. We’re connected by millions of shared experiences and dreams and nightmares, all tied together with compassion. I learned that even when we’re going through our darkest winter, spring is waiting to appear. ↗

— Laura Anderson Kurk

#grief #healing #laura-anderson-kurk #love #romance

I was a teenage godmother. ↗

— Theresa May

#i #teenage

I'm like any other kid; I've seen the monsters in the closet and under the bed. The only difference between me and other kids is...the monsters are afraid of me..." (Angel) Night School: A Dasheen "Angel" Vampire Hunter novel ↗

— Michelle Cornwell-Jordan

#young-adult-urban-fantasy #urban-fantasy

I take a few quick sips. "This is really good." And I mean it. I have never tasted tea like this. It is smooth, pungent, and instantly addicting. "This is from Grand Auntie," my mother explains. "She told me 'If I buy the cheap tea, then I am saying that my whole life has not been worth something better.' A few years ago she bought it for herself. One hundred dollars a pound." "You're kidding." I take another sip. It tastes even better. ↗

— Amy Tan

#tea #life

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity

Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own? ↗

— Brigham Young

#self-esteem #worry

Teenagers who are never required to vacuum are living in one. ↗

— Fred G. Gosman

#living #never #required #teenagers #vacuum

I've never had any summer lovin'. And I've never had any school year lovin', either. I've never had a boyfriend. I've never hooked up with a guy. And this morning, on my Internet browser, an article popped up about women marrying themselves. Even my wireless connection knows I'm alone. ↗

— Flynn Meaney

#loneliness #love-life #teen #teenage-love #ya

That crap about doing something with your life are luxury problems. People like us have to play by a different rules.” #ShadowofSadd #Books ↗

— Steen Langstrup

#in-the-shadow-of-sadd #noir #scandinavian-mysteries #steen-langstrup #life

The problem isn’t that I think so highly of myself. It is just that you think so little of yourself. Live life BIG, BOLD and OUT LOUD! ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#self-esteem #life