#your

Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other. ↗

— Sojourner Truth

#brothers #down #each #ever #far

Success in show business depends on your ability to make and keep friends. ↗

— Sophie Tucker

#business #depends #friends #keep #make

A concave chest means that your diaphragm is sagging. ↗

— Gene Tunney

#means #sagging #your

You want your mind to be boggled. That is a pleasure in and of itself. And it's more a pleasure if it's boggled by something that you can then demonstrate is really, really true. ↗

— Saul Perlmutter

#itself #mind #more #pleasure #really

You have to let it all hang out, let go of the ideas that were more comfortable and embrace some of the sadness in your life. ↗

— Madeleine Peyroux

#embrace #go #hang #ideas #let go

Strict justice would demand total confiscation of your property, personal imprisonment and fines. ↗

— Zebulon Pike

#demand #fines #imprisonment #justice #personal

Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat. ↗

— Martin Henry Fischer

#driving #education #prejudices #process #set

We're all on our own, aren't we? That's what it boils down to. We come into this world on our own- in Hawaii, as I did, or New York, or China, or Africa or Montana- and we leave it in the same way, on our own, wherever we happen to be at the time- in a plane, in our beds, in a car, in a space shuttle, or in a field of flowers. And between those times, we try to connect along the way with others who are also on their own. If we're lucky, we have a mother who reads to us. We have a teacher or two along the way who make us feel special. We have dogs who do the stupid dog tricks we teach them and who lie on our bed when we're not looking, because it smells like us, and so we pretend not to notice the paw prints on the bedspread. We have friends who lend us their favorite books. Maybe we have children, and grandchildren, and funny mailmen and eccentric great-aunts, and uncles who can pull pennies out of their ears. All of them teach us stuff. They teach us about combustion engines and the major products of Bolivia, and what poems are not boring, and how to be kind to each other, and how to laugh, and when the vigil is in our hands, and when we have to make the best of things even though it's hard sometimes. Looking back together, telling our stories to one another, we learn how to be on our own. ↗

— Lois Lowry

#stories #funny

And even when they refuse to listen, I'll keep talking anyway, hoping on a slim chance that the things inside my head are worth something to someone. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#lessons #life #life-lessons #love #speaking-out

Let your dreams outgrow the shoes of your expectations. ↗

— Ryunosuke Satoro

#expectations #our dreams #outgrow #shoes #your