#hers

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#school #teachers #education

It is good to put your life in other people's hands. ↗

— T.H. White

#others #trust #life

I know that my youth will triumph over everything - every disillusionment, every disgust with life. I’ve asked myself many times whether there is in in the world any despair that would overcome this frantic and perhaps unseemly thirst for life in me, and I've come to the conclusion that there isn't... ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#karamazov-bothers #life

Helping others is the secret sauce to a happy life. ↗

— Todd Stocker

#happy #helping-others #joy #life #secret

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#love

Even the smallest act of caring for another person is like a drop of water -it will make ripples throughout the entire pond... ↗

— Jessy and Bryan Matteo

#helping-others #love #peace #selflessness #love

He clutched the watch hard in his fist, determined to destroy it, to prove that it couldn't be real. That she hadn't come here because of him, for him. That he hadn't done what he knew he had. ↗

— Kelly Creagh

#isobel #lost-love #varen-nethers #love

This isn't some kind of game for me. I love you, Ivy Lyons, and one day you're going to believe me. - Tristan Carruthers - ↗

— Elizabeth Chandler

#love

It is quite clear that between love and understanding there is a very close link...He who loves understands, and he who understands loves. One who feels understood feels loved, and one who feels loved feels sure of being understood. ↗

— Paul Tournier

#understanding-others #love

I remember his eyes. They are just like mine. Every time I look in the mirror I see him. I try not to look at my self too much. ↗

— Ida Løkås

#eyes #fathers #loss #love #memories