#wing

Knowing yourself and expressing it is hip. I think knowing yourself is the real journey, for me anyway. ↗

— David Schwimmer

#expressing #hip #i #i think #journey

Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it. ↗

— Kim Harrison

#love

I think of me and Melanie when we were younger, on the high dive at the pool in Mexico. We would always hold hands as we jumped, but by the time we swam back up to the surface, we'd have let go. No matter how we tried, once we started swimming, we always let go. But after we bobbed to the surface, we'd climb out of the pool, clamber up the high-dive ladder, clasp hands, and do it again. We're swimming separately now. I get that. Maybe it's just what you have to do to keep above water. But who knows? Maybe one day, we'll climb out, grab hands, and jumo again. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#growing-up #hopeful #reality-of-life #friendship

Angels walk among us, Sometimes the only thing we may not see are the wings upon their backs. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#inspiration #inspirational-quotes #walking #wings #inspirational

Experience is like evidence. When you're young and don't have much experience yet, you don't have much basis for confidence. All you really have is hope, and that can get shaken pretty easily. But as years go by, you start to gather this evidence. You made it through this or that and you did okay, maybe not perfectly, but okay, so when you stumble, which you will, you can look back and say, 'Well, I survived that, so I can probably survive this.' Or there will be things you're really proud of, evidence of your abilities, and you can look back on those things and say, 'I did it then, I can do it again.' Right now, you're just building up those experiences. ↗

— Charity Shumway

#inspirational #experience

One cannot lead well until one learns to follow well. ↗

— Jacqueline Patricks

#leadership-characteristics #leadership-development #leading-vs-following #leadership

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#life #life

I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#growing-up #life #maturity #life

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't be worth reading. ↗

— Yevgeny Zamyatin

#knowing #life #novel #people #worth

It's not always easy being her daughter.' I think,' she said, 'sometimes it's hard no matter whose daughter you are. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#growing-up #life #parents #life