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Nikki

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“Folks don’t give themselves enough credit. The mother who endures cavities so her children can get braces. The father who works a dead-end job so his kids can have a roof over their heads. The daughter who sacrifices college so she can take care of her disabled mother. They are all heroes.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: building-yourself, give-credit-where-credit-is-due, heroes, heroic-act, impress-yourself, never-forget-those-who-helped, nothing-great-comes-easy, sacrifice-for-others, striving-for-greatness

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“It’s always seemed to me things are more exciting when you’re not looking and you find them.”
― Nora Roberts, The Liar

3 likes

“Folks don’t give themselves enough credit. The mother who endures cavities so her children can get braces. The father who works a dead-end job so his kids can have a roof over their heads. The daughter who sacrifices college so she can take care of her disabled mother. They are all heroes, and don’t you believe otherwise.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: believe-me, impacting-lives, judge-not, look-up-to, nothing-is-free, service-to-humanity, serving-humanity, struggle-for-life, struggles-in-life, wonderful-people

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“I don’t mind you pouring lemonade or whatever on us, but as soon as you hit a woman, I get mad. And that’s one show you don’t want the curtains to go up on.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen

tags: anger-quotes, dont-fuck-with-me, intimidating-yet-funny, intimidation-quotes, limits-of-tolerance, threatening, whatever

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“This has been her life for the past fifty years, this striving to help save the world a little bit, to push it just a bit farther into the right. This action was the only thing that sustained her during the hard times [when] only her purposeful life propped her up from total collapse, and she thought how strange that she had taught the morality play Everyman all those years but didn’t fully understand its central lesson or how true it was: We are our good deeds, and they alone will come with us into the afterlife.”
― Ray Smith, The Magnolia That Bloomed Unseen