#ily

Who we are takes generations to create and doesn’t end with death. ↗

— Stanley Siegel

#time #death

Was it Jesus you saw a picture of?” he says and looks up at me. If it had not been for the friendly voice and the long pause before the question, I would have thought he was making fun of me. He finds it a little embarrassing that I am a Christian; all he wants is for me not to be different from the other kids, and of all the kids in the neighbourhood, his youngest son is the only one to call himself a Christian. But he is really wondering about this. I feel a flutter of joy because he actually cares, and at the same time I become a bit offended that he underestimates me like that. I shake my head. “It wasn’t Jesus,” I say. ↗

— Karl Ove Knausgård

#karl-ove-knausgaard #karl-ove-knausgård #knausgaard #life #min-kamp

I looked at the photo of me and my par­ents, ran my fin­ger­tips along the glass frame. I had just been born. We were still in the hos­pi­tal, and I looked more like a bur­rito with a face than like a baby. ↗

— Darynda Jones

#burrito #family #funny #death

Spending time with the ones who are dear to you is like being in a dream, is it not? ↗

— Sakura Tsukuba

#family #inoue-san #land-of-the-blindfolded #dreams

God is the designer of the family. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#design

With every choice you create the life you’ll live; with every decision you design it. ↗

— Mollie Marti

#family #growth #hope #purpose #self-awareness

Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today. ↗

— James Dean

#aspirations #carpe-diem #inspirational #dreams

Some people live in cages with bars built from their own fears and doubts. Some people live in cages with bars built from other people's fears and doubts; their parents, their friends, their brothers and sisters, their families. Some people live in cages with bars built from the choices others made for them, the circumstances other people imposed upon them. And some people break free. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#breaking-free #dogma #freedom #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

Sadie," he said forlornly, "when you become a parent, you may understand this. One of my hardest jobs as a father, one of my greatest duties, was to realize that my own dreams, my own goals and wishes, are secondary to my children's. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#father #parenting #self-sacrifice #dreams

Thank goodness, we can choose our friends. We have to take our relatives as they are, and be thankful… ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#friendship #l-m-montgomery #dreams