#your

In theory, sure, Gregor could still go home. Pack up his three-year-old sister, Boots, get his mom out of the hospital, where she was recovering from the plague, and have his bat, Ares, fly them back up to the laudry room of their appartment building in New York City. Ares, his bond, who saved his life numerous times and who had had nothing but suffering since he had met Gregor. He tried to imagine the parting. "Well, Ares, it's been great. I'm heading home now. I know by leaving I'm completely dooming to annihilation everbody who's helped me down here, but I'm really not up for this whole war thing anymore. So, fly you high, you know?" Like that would ever happen. ↗

— Suzanne Collins

#responsibility #risking-your-life #war #imagination

Well, to tell you the truth, I've thought of it often and often before, but he's such devilish good company is Huntingdon, after all - you can't imagine what a jovial good fellow he is when he's not fairly drunk, only just primed or half-seas-over - we all have a bit of a liking for him at the bottom of our hearts, though we can't respect him.' 'But should you wish yourself to be like him?' 'No, I'd rather be like myself, bad as I am. ↗

— Anne Brontë

#flaws #individuality #imagination

To be yourself requires extraordinary intelligence. You are blessed with that intelligence; nobody need give it to you; nobody can take it away from you. He who lets that express itself in its own way is a "Natural Man". ↗

— U.G. Krishnamurti

#intelligence

Intelligent and beuty... Nobody use ↗

— Jisela Sejas r

#intelligence

Jealousy shows weakness and we must be strong to except ourselves for who we truly are. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#strength #jealousy

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. ↗

— Golda Meir

#self #trust-yourself #life

Have a big enough heart to love unconditionally, and a broad enough mind to embrace the differences that make each of us unique. ↗