#ren

You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I will find a way to resist. And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to come to earth. People who love in a world without walls, people who love into hate, into refusal, against hope, and without fear. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #resistance #strength #courage

It takes courage...to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose to take the dull pain of unconsciousness that would last the rest of our lives. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#self-awareness #self-discovery #self-evaluation #courage

To share your weakness is to make yourself vulnerable; to make yourself vulnerable is to show your strength. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confronting #courage #honesty #humble #humility

He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#currency #labor #robs #who

Judges pretty much act independently once they get on the bench so I'm not really sure why Harper's concerned that the court is currently being stacked with a lot of Liberal appointments. ↗

— Alan Young

#appointments #being #bench #concerned #court

To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perserverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important. ↗

— Rafe Esquith

#parenting #education

My mum's parents were from Ireland, my dad's mum was American-Irish. ↗

— Dominic West

#ireland #mum #parents #were

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi) ↗

— Eve Ensler

#being-alive #being-different #difference #intensity #love

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults. ↗

— Peter De Vries

#aging #children #marriage #maturity #parenting

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#age #birth #bizarre #child #children