All Quotes By Tag: Life-lessons

“living is more than just a pulse”

“Don’t grow up it’s a trap”

“You have no idea what your legacy will be because your legacy is every life you touch.”

“When people start telling you how to fix things, Isobel, it’s best to first make sure those things need fixing.”

“Looking through the eyes and minds of the younger generation reminds us, that life doesn’t always require to be so serious all the time. Smile and live a little or even live a lot.”

“My child had shown me that love, marriage, and motherhood didn’t guarantee you anything—not companionship, not security, certainly not happiness. My young adulthood showed me that my being smart, hardworking, spiritual, and purehearted didn’t exempt me from any of the insults to which my biosocial status entitled me: a person who is female, black, and working-class will be injured by sexism, racism, classism no matter what she does.”

“If you think of building your life the way you build a house, it can help you see how important having a strong foundation is”

“You have to ask yourself,do you really need me?”

“And then getting asked why I am so quiet And having the strength not to reply with “What’s the point of being anything else?”

“Winners don’t cheat, cheaters don’t win.”

“They understood something together at that moment, Makepeace and Bear. Sometimes you had to be patient through pain, or people gave you more pain. Sometimes you had to weather everything and take your bruises. If you were lucky, and if everyone thought you were tamed and trained… there might come a time when you could strike.”

“Dear Change,My fear of the unknown finally outweighed my fear of the familiar.”

“You don’t open up,Not to anyone,What is trust?Stranger danger, tears come free,You want to talk?Well, not to me”

“hauntedBy the court system having no belief systemIn words that escape from soft lips from a soft woman”

“Haunted by the ‘male’ in femaleAs if we can’t stand on our ownAs if we need a tail”