But you can't start. Only a baby can start. You and me - why, we're all that's been. The anger of a moment, the thousand pictures, that's us. This land, this red land, is us; and the flood years and the dust years and the drought years are us. We can't start again. The bitterness we sold to the junk man - he got it all right, but we have it still. And when the owner men told us to go, that's us; and when the tractor hit the house, that's us until we're dead. To California or any place - every one a drum major leading a parade of hurts, marching with our bitterness. And some day - the armies of bitterness will all be going the same way. And they'll all walk together, and there'll be a dead terror from it.
John SteinbeckTags: money value worth bitterness lives the-grapes-of-wrath john-steinbeck
You must know that you are worth much to me whether you accomplish anything or not. Even if you are rejected in the world's eyes, you are valuable to me.
Stormie OmartianTags: identity god value worth
[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.
Moderata FonteTags: empowerment gender men women jealousy feminism misogyny hypocrisy inequality imagery worth envy dignity suppression ugliness crows merits
Be worthy love, and love will come.
Louisa May AlcottLook beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.
Marcus AureliusTags: truth perception qualities value worth appearance surface
He picked up one of Lorna's roses and set it in my lap. "Here." I picked it up and smelled it. He poked me in the shoulder. "See what I mean? Thorns don't stop you from sniffing. Or putting them in a vase on the kitchen table. You work around them.... Cause the rose is worth it... Think what you'd miss.
Charles MartinTags: roses worth thorns tough-times tough-life
Though the funny thing about never being asked for anything is that after a while you start to feel like maybe you don’t have anything worth giving.
Lev GrossmanTags: self-esteem worth
Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Steve JobsTags: wisdom truth thinking simple worth complex hard
God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself.
Criss JamiTags: happiness blessings peace god selflessness delight joy selfishness worth obedience righteousness holiness favor worthiness considerate righteous worthy inconsiderate
If the entire world sought to make itself worthy of happiness rather than make itself happy, then the entire world would be happy.
Criss JamiTags: happiness world self-control peace selflessness happy selfishness unity worth problem problem-solving solution ultimate-answer together worthiness considerate working-together worthy ultimate inconsiderate
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