#val

Given the reality of unintended parenthood and parental unhappiness, one would think that women and men who make the decision not to have children - who are deliberate and thoughtful about the choice to bring another person into the world - would be seen as less selfish than those who unthinkingly have children. Yet the stigma remains. ↗

— Jessica Valenti

#mother #parent #why-have-kids #men

I feel like men are more romantic than women. When we get married we marry, like, one girl, 'cause we're resistant the whole way until we meet one girl and we think I'd be an idiot if I didn't marry this girl she's so great. But it seems like girls get to a place where they just kinda pick the best option... 'Oh he's got a good job.' I mean they spend their whole life looking for Prince Charming and then they marry the guy who's got a good job and is gonna stick around. ↗

— Blue Valentine

#girl #guy #life #love #married

If you’re honest with yourself as a writer, trying to tell the best story you can, your story will be an honest one. And your values will come out, no matter how hard you try to disguise them. ↗

— Joe Clifford Faust

#inspiration #values #inspirational

For no matter how many battles had been won or lost, no matter how many friends and soldiers killed, every battle felt like the first. And I realized that it wasn't the training, nor the pain of seeing friends die, nor the will to win that made the men fight, but their will to survive that made them soldiers. ↗

— Magus Guidan

#survival #war #men

All the authors I studied, all the historical figures, with the exception of George Washington Carver, and all those figures I looked upon as having importance were white men. I didn't mind that they were men, or even white men. What I did mind was that being white seemed to play so important a part in the assigning of values. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#men

Tolerance is not a Christian value. Charity, justice, mercy, prudence, honesty--these are Christian values. ↗

— Archbishop Charles J. Chaput

#christianity #inspirational #tolerance #values #inspirational

In seasons of hiddenness our sense of value is disrupted, stripped of what "others" affirmed us to be. In this season God intends to give us an unshakable identity in Him, that no amount of adoration nor rejection can alter. ↗

— Alicia Britt Chole

#god #hiddenness #identity #inspirational #jesus

Till the time u dont value urslf , the world wont take a step ahead ! Thinking matters ! ↗

— Suchet chaturvedi

#thinking #value-of-life #inspirational

I might be small and afraid, I might be sad and embarrassed, I might have cried once or twice; but I am not weak. Until I give up, I am strong. And if there is one thing I can promise, I will never give up. ↗

— Céline

#strength #struggle #survival #inspirational

And remember, Wallis, there's something the matter with Mr. Allan's shutters. They won't always close the sunshine out as they should." Wallis almost winked, if an elderly, mutton-chopped servitor can be imagined as winking. "No, ma'am," he promised. Something wrong with 'em. I'll remember, ma'am. ↗

— Margaret Widdemer

#invalids #sunshine #imagination