#ones

Phones with numerical keypads worked best for dialing phone calls. Incidentally, phone calls tend to be the primary function of a phone. 'Smartphones' completely ignore these basic facts, resulting in some of the least intelligent devices I've seen yet. Oh the irony. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#humor #opinion #phones #sarcasm #smartphones

Why do you think, A.J.," they say in unison, "that you find these boys so attractive?" I didn't say that this fiery chemical explosion leaps from somewhere inside me. Parents don't want to hear these things. I shrugged and said nothing. "Maybe you should try sitting on the intensity," Mom suggests, "just until your feelings catch up with reality." "We could chain you to the water heater," Dad offers, "until these little moments pass." You see what I'm up against. ↗

— Joan Bauer

#family-relationships #hormones #humor #parental-advice #parents

Wealth is a relational barrier. It keeps us from having open relationships. ↗

— Randy Alcorn

#communication #honesty #openness #relationships #stewardship

Don't wish to be normal. Wish to be yourself. To the hilt. Find out what you're best at, and develop it, and hopscotch your weaknesses. Wish to be great at whatever you are. ↗

— Lois McMaster Bujold

#courage #courage-to-be-oneself #inspirational #inspirational-life #self-determination

For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it. ↗

— Patrick Henry

#freedom #honesty #revolution #self-examination #truth

The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world. ↗

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#honesty #truth #truth-telling #courage

Human freedom involves our capacity to pause between the stimulus and response and, in that pause, to choose the one response toward which we wish to throw our weight. The capacity to create ourselves, based upon this freedom, is inseparable from consciousness or self-awareness. (p. 100) ↗

— Rollo May

#freedom #pause #responsibility #courage

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind, and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#courage-to-be-oneself #individuality #change

Have the courage to let some go, and sacrifice for some to stay; thus, live and make life your own way. ↗

— Mohammed Ali Bapir

#courage-to-be-oneself #life-experience #life-lessons #make-a-difference #sacrifice

No longer will I doubt my abilities...I will give myself a chance. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#courage-to-be-oneself #inspirational #motivation #courage