#up

Everyone needs a house to live in, but a supportive family is what builds a home. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#family #home #house #love #need

Witty sayings don’t grow on bumpers the way babies do. I was raised by a single rush hour.
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— Jarod Kintz

#baby #bumper-stickers #cars #family #funny

it was weird. Would you believe it if some supermodel called you up and told you she was your sister?’ Strike thought of his own bizarre family history. ‘Probably,’ he said. ↗

— Robert Galbraith

#family #history #siblings #supermodel #family

Because I’ve got a lot more terms of endearment to use. Honey pie. Sugarplum. Bread pudding," “Why are they all high-calorie foods? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#bloodlines #couple #cute #love #nicknames

It's up to the owner of a blanket to sleep on the blanket or to sleep in the blanket. ↗

— Kudakwashe Muzira

#romance #superstitions-infanticide #triplets #family

Sometimes I wonder about good and evil. If the villain wins, isn't he heralded as the hero? I've tried so hard to be good since that day, but sometimes I wonder whether it's even worth it. After all, to be the hero, I have to win. ↗

— Sarah C. Yung

#morality #supernatural #teens #yalit #young-adult

It was as if we were having two different conversations. Which wasn’t that surprising after all, as we were clearly having two entirely different experiences of breaking up. His was soft, cushioned; Jude and his friends had broken his fall. Mine was cold, empty and bereft. I was freefalling in space and time, with nobody standing by to stop me hurtling headlong into obscurity. ↗

— Ruth Mancini

#relationships #experience

When I was young, I used to wish I would fit in… I’m glad I didn’t get my wish. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#growing-up #inspirational #life #young #experience

Many of you would like to take evil and step on it, destroying it like you would a bug. Squish, smash! Begone into another reality! This practice of eliminating human life because it is perceived as evil does you no good. In the end your history and experience are filled with war of one kind or another; humans fighting one another for the right to speak their truth and share their perception.And one human or another is always wanting to suppress someone else's ideas, someone else's thinking. ↗

— Barbara Marciniak

#suppress #war #experience

You have described only too well," replied the Master, "where the difficulty lies...The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You...brace yourself for failure. So long as that is so, you have no choice but to call forth something yourself that ought to happen independently of you, and so long as you call it forth your hand will not open in the right way--like the hand of a child. ↗

— Eugen Herrigel

#art #life #porup #writing #zen