"Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem books because she met a new boy"

-- Stephen Chbosky

#Mother Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Father Quotes

“love is ... something extraordinary that happens to ordinary people.”

Source : Anita Shreve (2002). “The Last Time They Met”, Large Print Press
“I would say that if something has an aesthetic value and it is pleasing to watch or to wear, it may in fact have nothing to do with status symbol. You just like to wear it.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“A Christian high school is just like any other high school in the sense of the politics and all of these levels of who's cool and what to wear.”
“I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.”
“And here I am, dying in my bed, like cattle die. May the eyes of cowards never sleep.”
“The absolute contingency of the encounter takes on the appearance of destiny. The declaration of love marks the transition from chance to destiny and that's why it is so perilous and so burdened with a kind of horrifying stage fright.”
“Compelled to become instruments of war, to kill and be killed, child soldiers are forced to give violent expression to the hatreds of adults”
“We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.”

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