#val

Francis Bacon is a good-looking young man. I don't think he has a girlfriend but I don't know. I don't think he has a boyfriend, either, but I don't know. If he has a group of friends at school, that where he keeps them. He doesn't get many phone calls here. He doesn't go out often. He keeps to himself, even in the family. He's pleasant and polite. Sure, he and I get into fights. He doesn't have his music loud enough. He doesn't drink or smoke enough. We never walk in on him having sex with some girl. It's regular family stuff. "Francis Bacon, are the cops ever going to come looking for you?" You know. That sort of thing. ↗

— James Marshall

#family

Houses are built brick-by-brick. HOMEs are built word-by-word. Houses don't build themselves. So YOU must build your home ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#culture #family #home #leadership #values

Humor keeps us alive. Humor and food. Don't forget food. You can go a week without laughing. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#humor #survival #wit #food

Mom stood over the still thrashing ghost with the bat and brought it down on its head again and again. "Leave him alone, leave my family alone!" she screamed. "We are not going to die in a stupid gas station in the middle of nowhere! ↗

— C.A. Marshall

#survival #zombies #family

The only permission, the only validation, and the only opinion that matters in our quest for greatness is our own. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #opinion #permission #success

Most people are resentful of the happiness of others and yet we seem to seek validation from others in order to allow our own happiness… it’s easy to see the problem with this system. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #people #validation #experience

I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But (...) we must see all scars as beauty. (...) Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, 'I survived'. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#little-bee #survival #the-other-hand #beauty

Where you read a book and when and with whom can make a big difference. ↗

— Robert Coles

#story #value #imagination

It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#pragmatism #values #love

...for most men are unaware that what is in the power of magicians to accomplish, that the heart can also accomplish by dint of love and bravery. ↗

— Joseph Bédier

#love