It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world. It’s our job to raise children who will make the world a little less cruel and heartless.
L.R. Knost (via creatingaquietmind)

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We are each the authors of our own lives, Emma. We live in what we have created. There is no way to shift the blame and no one else to accept the accolades.
Barbara Taylor Bradford, A Woman of Substance (via quotes-shape-us)
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
Rumi (via creatingaquietmind)

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