#wall

Because I know there are people who say all these things don’t happen. And there are people who forget what it’s like to be sixteen when they turn seventeen. I know these will all be stories some day, and our pictures will become old photographs. We all become somebody’s mom or dad. But right now, these moments are not stories. This is happening. I am here, and I am looking at her. And she is so beautiful. I can see it. This one moment when you know you’re not a sad story. You are alive. And you stand up and see the lights on the buildings and everything that makes you wonder. And you’re listening to that song, and that drive with the people who you love most in this world. And in this moment, I swear, we are infinite. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#love

True strength is knowing that you don't have to be strong every single second of the day. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-strong #healing #heartbreak #letting-down-the-walls #letting-go

They can rip you bring you down, down to their size, but they will never get to the heart you hold inside. ↗

— Little Mix

#jade-thirlwall #jesy-nelson #leigh-ann-pinnock #little-mix #lyrics

We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. ↗

— Etty Hillesum

#inspirational

A person can put up any kind of protective wall, but love and truth always find a way around it. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#honor #inspiration #inspirational-quotes #joy #knowledge

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#corporations #government #occupy-wall-street #ows #potus

I just want you to know that you’re very special… and the only reason I’m telling you is that I don’t know if anyone else ever has. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#stephen-chbosky #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #inspirational

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else. ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#iyanla-vanzant #spinach-soup-for-the-walls #inspirational

It's nice to have things to look forward to. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #look-forward-to #stephen-chbosky #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #things

I'm not a prophet, but I always thought it was natural for dictatorships to fall. I remember in 1989, two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, had you said it was going to happen no one would have believed you. The system seemed powerful and unbreakable. Suddenly overnight it blew away like dust. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#away #before #believed #berlin #berlin wall