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0045fb6 Crying does not indicate that you are weak. Since birth, it has always been a sign that you are alive. inspiration life wisdom Charlotte Brontë
5849788 Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world. authentic-living be-yourself growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
2b4664d "Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: "For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered." 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, 39 neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord." inspiration love truth Anonymous
ddd5cce Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!! action belief confidence discipline enthusiasm inspiration inspirational motivational Pablo
0688bf0 We are always falling in love or quarreling, looking for jobs or fearing to lose them, getting ill and recovering, following public affairs. If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come. education inspiration knowledge life work C.S. Lewis
87452f8 "The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be inspiration potential Brian Tracy
218627d Focus on making choices to lead your life that aligns with your core values in the most purposeful way possible. choice choices core-values inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
1d4dee6 One of the best ways to influence people is to make those around you feel important. influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational Roy T. Bennett
2cc4f86 If you care about someone enough, you'll always be there for them no matter what. be-there care-enough inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
7594a7d The more you believed in yourself, the more you could trust yourself. The more you trust yourself, the less you compare yourself to others. authentic-living believe believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking spirituality trust-yourself Roy T. Bennett
66a5483 You have come to earth to entertain and to be entertained. inspiration Paramahansa Yogananda
e203da9 Remember that things are not always as they appear to be... Curiosity creates possibilities and opportunities. creativity curiosity inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational opportunity optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking possibility Roy T. Bennett
59e709c The more you talk about them, the more important they will feel. The more you listen to them, the more important you will make them feel. important influence inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes listen listening living motivation motivational talk talking Roy T. Bennett
463ef48 We don't truly appreciate what we have until it's gone... We don't really appreciate something until we have experienced some events; we don't really appreciate our parents until we ourselves have become parents. Be grateful for what you have now, and nothing should be taken for granted. gratitude inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
7138b29 He glanced back at the wall. How like a mirror, too, her face. Impossible; for how many people did you know who reflected your own light to you? People were more often--he searched for a simile, found one in his work--torches, blazing away until they whiffed out. How rarely did other people's faces take of you and throw back to you your own expression, your own innermost trembling thought? children epiphany inspiration mirror-images Ray Bradbury
9a8e769 Reason, Observation and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science -- have taught us that happiness is the only good; that the time to be happy is now, and the way to be happy is to make others so. This is enough for us. In this belief we are content to live and die. If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. content experience happiness holy-trinity hope inspiration nature observation reason science supernatural trinity Robert Green Ingersoll
9e775aa The greatest thing about dreams is they don't expire. They can lay dormant for years and when you pull them out and dust them off, they shine like new. dream-quotes dreams happiness inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes Casi McLean
a3b4d36 I admire those who do good and expect nothing in return. goodness inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
ae0a77a Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not. act acting actor actors adage adages animal animals aphorism aphorisms audacity axiom axioms balls be-yourself boldness brave bravery cojones conform conforming conformity courage courageous courageousness daring dead death deep dictum dictums die epigram epigrams facade façades fear fearful fearlessness fit-in fitting-in fruit fruits gallantry gnome gnomes grit guts hardihood heroism herself himself human human-being human-beings humans humor humour insightful inspiration inspirational inspire inspired intrepidity kill killed lemon lemons made-me-think make-you-think maxim maxims motivated motivational motive moxie murder murdered nerve nonconformity oneself orange people peoples person persons plant plants pluck pluckiness pretend pretender pretenders pretending produce profound proverb proverbs provoke-thought quotation quotations quote quotes satire satirical saying sayings self spunk standing-out standout themselves thought-provoking thoughtful tree trees true-grit valour words-to-live-by yourself Mokokoma Mokhonoana
7c36087 Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he'd never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home. hope inspiration inspirational king-of-scars leigh-bardugo nikolai-lantsov Leigh Bardugo
ebdc978 Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. god hope inspiration kingdom life love religion reverence thankful truth verse worship Anonymous
d5b9e92 Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. influence inspiration T.S. Eliot
b9ce833 Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone. achievement change comfort-zone courage dream dreams inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring leader leaders leadership life life-quotes living motivation motivational start-up step-out-of-your-comfort-zone Roy T. Bennett
c890643 Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive. accidents fantasy heartbreak hurt inspiration inspirational life life-goes-on love moïra-fowley-doyle staying-alive the-accident-season truth unique young-adult Moïra Fowley-Doyle
b773023 I think you don't grow up until you stop worrying about other people's purposes or lack of them and find the purposes you believe in for yourself. ender inspiration life-lessons Orson Scott Card
11d734d Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16) faith happy heal healing inspiration miracles pray prayer sin sing spirituality troubles Anonymous
4e40620 Faith is not about finding meaning in the world, there may be no such thing -- faith is the belief in our capacity to create meaningful lives. inspiration meaning Terry Tempest Williams
dca8713 Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas. inspiration Walter Isaacson
a367a53 "Aelin Galathynius smiled at her, hand still outreached. "Get up." the princess said. Celaena reached across the earth between them and brushed her fingers against Aelin's. And arose." climax hallucinating heir-of-fire inspiration Sarah J. Maas
3e16370 Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more. community community-service inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspiring social-justice volunteer volunteering volunteerism volunteers H. Jackson Brown Jr.
f3d6a87 As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin's subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well call-to-action hope inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude life Traci Medford-Rosow
fd07c37 Halfway down the aisle, Jamie suddenly seemed to tire, and they stopped while she caught her breath...It was, I remembered thinking, the most difficult walk anyone ever had to make. In every way, a walk to remember. inspiration love true-love Nicholas Sparks
fa2043d The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy. choice choose happiness happy inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-quotes live-life-happy living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
41d7a4e But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it. birth-of-ideas contrast feel-inspired get-ideas get-inspired inspiration where-ideas-come-from F. Scott Fitzgerald
1108923 Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down. inspiration margaret-langstaff risk writing Ray Bradbury
b80e05d If you want to concentrate deeply on some problem, and especially some piece of writing or paper-work, you should acquire a cat. Alone with the cat in the room where you work ... the cat will invariably get up on your desk and settle placidly under the desk lamp ... The cat will settle down and be serene, with a serenity that passes all understanding. And the tranquility of the cat will gradually come to affect you, sitting there at your desk, so that all the excitable qualities that impede your concentration compose themselves and give your mind back the self-command it has lost. You need not watch the cat all the time. Its presence alone is enough. The effect of a cat on your concentration is remarkable, very mysterious. composition concentration focus inspiration writing Muriel Spark
6b7c687 The past is a place of learning, not a place of living. experience inspiration inspirational inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-quotes living Roy T. Bennett
020b056 Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth. inspiration joy J.R.R. Tolkien
615ecdb "I am the lover's gift; I am the wedding wreath; I am the memory of a moment of happiness; beauty flower inspiration spiritual Gibran Kahlil Gibran
8639bb7 "Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in my dazzling short story, "The Cookiepants Hypotenuse."' Or else they get unbearably cutesy: 'My cat Ootsywootums has given me all my best ideas, hasn't oo, squeezums?" creative-process criticism critique inspiration on-writing reviewing reviews writers Connie Willis
a5cda53 blindness is a private matter between a person and the eyes with which he or she was born. inspiration privacy José Saramago
3130ceb We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. inspiration optimism James Redfield
aa2ead5 Pippa's laugh is bitter, tinged with tears. 'Ha! Why do girls think being beautiful will solve every problem? Being beautiful just creates problems. It's a misery. I wish I were someone else. gemma-doyle inspiration Libba Bray
81096f4 When I left Queen's my future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I don't know what lies around the bend, but I am going to believe that the best does. It has a fascination of its own, that bend, Marilla. I wonder how the road beyond it goes - what there is of green glory and soft, checkered light and shadows - what new landscapes - what new beauties - what curves and hills and valleys farther on. inspiration resolution L.M. Montgomery
71432da My days I devote to reading and experiments in chemistry, and I spend many of the clear nights in the study of astronomy. There is, though I do not know how there is or why there is, a sense of infinite peace and protection in the glittering hosts of heaven. There it must be, I think, in the vast and eternal laws of matter, and not in the daily cares and sins and troubles of men, that whatever is more than animal within us must find its solace and its hope. heaven hope inspiration stars H.G. Wells
b073c2d The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert, that God spoke to them; and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition. Isaiah answer'd, I saw no God, nor heard any, in a finite organical perception; but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd; that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. inspiration justice pantheism sword-sentiments writing William Blake
79fb381 To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. inspiration life motivation Paulo Coelho
c6232a0 "How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don't know or only think we know what is on the other side of that transformation. Love, wisdom, grace, inspiration- how do you go about finding these things that are in some ways about extending the boundaries of the self into unknown territory, about becoming someone else?" inspiration love wisdom Rebecca Solnit
d23396c There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. inspiration Robert Louis Stevenson
18a9771 Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material--much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft--and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they've stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it's easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago. ideas innocencevation inspiration reading self-improvement Steven Johnson
2745915 And now that its ruby eyes are set into the gold, you cannot see their tear-shape, so they seem to be laughing rather than crying. It is a constant reminder to me of the human ability to create something beautiful even when things are at the darkest. despair hope humanity inspiration Cressida Cowell
46197b3 Bad, or good, as it happens to be, that is what it is to exist! . . . It is as though I have been silent and fuddled with sleep all my life. In spite of all, I know now that at least it is better to go always towards the summer, towards those burning seas of light; to sit at night in the forecastle lost in an unfamiliar dream, when the spirit becomes filled with stars, instead of wounds, and good and compassionate and tender. To sail into an unknown spring, or receive one's baptism on storm's promontory, where the solitary albatross heels over in the gale, and at last come to land. To know the earth under one's foot and go, in wild delight, ways where there is water. growth inspiration moving moving-forward sailing sea searching-and-finding travel Malcolm Lowry
8ff9f28 Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. inspiration life wisdom Marcel Proust
4aee65c You become what you think about inspiration money success Napoleon Hill
6a3a840 It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish it or know it or care, as a closed book on a shelf continues to whisper to itself its own inexhaustible tale. So many things have been shown so to me on these banks, so much light has illumined me by reflection here where the water comes down, that I can hardly believe that this grace never flags, that the pouring from ever-renewable sources is endless, impartial, and free. exhilaration grace inspiration mysticism nature water Annie Dillard
643bfab but I have no mind for business and considered staying awake to be enough of an accomplishment. inspiration lazy motivation work-ethic David Sedaris
3877393 To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. creativity inspiration sociology writing Steven Pressfield
020ea2c Losing a belief in free will has not made me fatalistic--in fact, it has increased my feelings of freedom. My hopes, fears, and neuroses seem less personal and indelible. There is no telling how much I might change in the future. Just as one wouldn't draw a lasting conclusion about oneself on the basis of a brief experience of indigestion, one needn't do so on the basis of how one has thought or behaved for vast stretches of time in the past. A creative change of inputs to the system--learning new skills, forming new relationships, adopting new habits of attention--may radically transform one's life. determinism free-will inspiration philosophy self-improvement Sam Harris
81455f6 For men and women alike, this journey is a the trajectory between birth and death, a human life lived. No one escapes the adventure. We only work with it differently. inspiration inspirational inspirational-life life-and-death life-and-living life-lessons meditation-experience mind-body-spirit mind-control mind-power mindfulness mindfulness-practice quotes-i-love quotes-on-life quotes-that-make-sense quotes-to-define-my-life quotes-to-live-by Jon Kabat-Zinn
48df226 Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy. classic-quotes faith grace hope ignorance inspiration marvelousmonday-quotes mercy nanowrimo national-novel-writing-month peace peacism quotes-by-famous-authors quotes-by-famous-poets silver souls spirituality stars survival terrorism the-soul war world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
077f9a2 The sign of the amateur is overglorification of and preoccupation with the mystery. The professional shuts up. She doesn't talk about it. She does her work. art inspiration writing Steven Pressfield
3fa82cc I guess when you're trying to find all the parts of yourself, it's difficult to be with someone who's already fully intact. goodness inspiration love yourself Cecelia Ahern
627fa6b Solitude is used to teach us how to live with other people. Rage is used to show us the infinite value of peace. Boredom is used to underline the importance of adventure & spontaneity. Silence is used to teach us to use words responsibly. Tiredness is used so that we can understand the value of waking up. Illness is used to underline the blessing of good health. Fire is used to teach us about water. Earth is used so that we can understand the value of air. Death is used to show us the importance of life. inspiration life peace solitude Paulo Coelho
d8f9714 What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. faith healing heaven hell hope inspiration inspirational-quotes positive-motivation recovery spirituality Aberjhani
150c93d In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own; and to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves. blog-quotes celebrities coaching empowerment famous-authors famous-poets grace gratitude hope inspiration motivation oprah-winfrey personal-growth philanthropy positive-motivation quotes-by-aberjhani rare-personalities spirituality television world-suicide-prevention-day Aberjhani
6e3c38a My arm draped her shoulder; we both felt safe, as if we were a complete solar system unto ourselves, dangling in the sky, warm heated planets inside a universe of stars. -Richard happiness inspiration love Douglas Coupland
b85217d our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight. inspiration life Isabel Allende
dc53499 Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith. dreams faith inspiration inspirational metaphysics mystical-poetry mystical-powers positive-motivation power spirituality Aberjhani
4aec229 "What in hell are you really made of, Howard? After all, it's only a building. It's not the combination of holy sacrament, Indian torture, and sexual ecstasy that you seem to make of it." "Isn't it?" howard-roark inspiration passion Ayn Rand
14f8cf3 But with your life you make a few bad decisions, get unlucky a few times, whatever, but you have to keep going, right? goodness inspiration letting-go life love moving-on Cecelia Ahern
ac0abfb Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. art-and-life artists imagination inspiration soul W. Somerset Maugham
ad4d1b4 There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world. coruage indignation injustice inspiration popular-movements Howard Zinn
ffbf722 I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. birth identity inspiration inspirational life love name names new-life poetry resurrection shakespeare theater theatre William Shakespeare
2e79d83 excuse my enthusiasm or rather madness, for I am really drunk with intellectual vision whenever I take a pencil or graver into my hand. enthusiasm inspiration intellectual madness William Blake
ae9aff7 Take faith, for example. For many people in our world, the opposite of faith is doubt. The goal, then, within this understanding, is to eliminate doubt. But faith and doubt aren't opposites. Doubt is often a sign that your faith has a pulse, that it's alive and well and exploring and searching. Faith and doubt aren't opposites, they are, it turns out, excellent dance partners. doubt faith inspiration religion Rob Bell
443d4c0 Life is now in session. Are you present? inspiration life John C. Maxwell
d7e31fd You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever. addiction addiction-cure addiction-disease addiction-treatment-center alcohol-addiction alcohol-addiction-treatment alcohol-disease alcohol-rehab alcoholic alcoholics-anonymous alcoholism alcoholism-addiction-recovery chris-prentiss dependency depression disease drug-addiction healing-addiction inspiration inspire passages-malibu passages-ventura pax-prentiss rehab rehab-centers self-help Chris Prentiss
b534708 It is a beautiful thing to be on fire for justice... there is no greater joy than inspiring and empowering others--especially the least of these, the precious and priceless wretched of the earth! antiracism black-prophetic-fire democracy economic-disparity empowerment humanity impoverishment inspiration joy political-motivation political-movements poor-people servant-leadership social-injustice social-justice social-movements Cornel West
0f211f8 I called the world of phenomena an illusion, I called my eyes and my tongue and accident, valueless phenomena. No, that is all over; I have awakened, I have really awakened and have just been born today. inspiration Hermann Hesse
e484d22 This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold. classic-poems classic-quotes compassion faith grief healing-grief hope infinity inspiration inspiration-for-the-soul inspirational-quotes newtown-connecticut palaces pearls pearls-of-wisdom quotes-for-easter rebirth recovery recovery-from-grief resurrection roses savannah-authors-and-poets sorrow spiritual-transformation spirituality survival transformation Aberjhani
fc5787d "O, with what freshness, what solemnity and beauty, is each new day born; as if to say to insensate man, "Behold! thou hast one more chance! Strive for immortal glory!" inspiration new-day Harriet Beecher Stowe
6bb568f I would venture to say that approaching the Christian Story from this direction, it has long been my feeling (a joyous feeling) that God redeemed the corrupt makingcreatures, men, in a way fitting to this aspect, as to others, of their strange nature. The Gospels contain a fairy-story, or a story of a larger kind which embraces all the essence of fairy-stories. They contain many marvels--peculiarly artistic, beautiful, and moving: 'mythical' in their perfect, self-contained significance; and among the marvels is the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe. But this story has entered History and the primary world; the desire and aspiration of sub-creation has been raised to the fulfillment of Creation. The Birth of Christ is the eucatastrophe of Man's history. The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation. This story begins and ends in joy. It has pre-eminently the 'inner consistency of reality'. There is no tale ever told that men would rather find was true, and none which so many sceptical men have accepted as true on its own merits. For the Art of it has the supremely convincing tone of Primary Art, that is, of Creation. To reject it leads either to sadness or to wrath. inspiration joy mythology on-fairy-stories J.R.R. Tolkien
f9bcc3b Imperfection inspires invention, imagination, creativity. It stimulates. The more I feel imperfect, the more I feel alive. creative creativity imagination imperfect imperfection inspiration Jhumpa Lahiri
6e79578 So the next time you see a person with a compose face and a soft voice, remember that inside her mind she might be solving an equation, composing a sonnet, designing a hat. She might, that is, be deploying the powers of quiet. inspiration introversion Susan Cain
566eb71 The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration. inspiration motivation writing Steven Pressfield
bc4c519 People who believe they have bad luck create bad luck. Those who believe they are very fortunate, that the world is a generous place filled with trustworthy people, live in exactly that kind of world. bad-luck beliefs books chris-prentiss fortunate fortune good-luck great-fortune inspiration inspire life passages-malibu passages-ventura quotes trust trustworthy Chris Prentiss
e81b7b7 "Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were flying in formation when the control tower summoned them down. The more it rained, the worse they suffered. The worse they suffered, the more they prayed that it would continue raining. All through the night, men looked at the sky and were saddened by the stars. All through the day, they looked at the bomb line on the big, wobbling easel map of Italy that blew over in the wind and was dragged in under the awning of the intelligence tent every time the rain began. The bomb line was a scarlet band of narrow satin ribbon that delineated the forward most position of the Allied ground forces in every sector of the Italian mainland. For hours they stared relentlessly at the scarlet ribbon on the map and hated it because it would not move up high enough to encompass the city. When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers. "I really can't believe it," Clevinger exclaimed to Yossarian in a voice rising and falling in protest and wonder. "It's a complete reversion to primitive superstition. They're confusing cause and effect. It makes as much sense as knocking on wood or crossing your fingers. They really believe that we wouldn't have to fly that mission tomorrow if someone would only tiptoe up to the map in the middle of the night and move the bomb line over Bologna. Can you imagine? You and I must be the only rational ones left." In the middle of the night Yossarian knocked on wood, crossed his fingers, and tiptoed out of his tent to move the bomb line up over Bologna." bologna catch-22 funny hope humor inspiration meditation prayer rational superstition war yossarian Joseph Heller
f166dbf Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps nothing will ever come to the surface to show that we were ever there. But we WERE there, and during the time we lived, we were alive. That's the truth - what is, what was, what will be - not what could be, what should have been, what never can be. inspiration olhado religion Orson Scott Card
cf4b7d0 ...she (the artist, the writer) doesn't wait for inspiration, she acts in the anticipation of its apparition. artist inspiration writer Steven Pressfield
8ef1121 To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk. change inspiration politics Rebecca Solnit
da57701 We lack faith in *what* exists within us because we lack faith in *Who* exists within us. inspiration Marianne Williamson
0c9efcf An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours. artist creative-process creativity ideas inspiration Irving Stone
8e70320 For the most part wisdom comes in chips rather than blocks. You have to be willing to gather them constantly, and from sources you never imagined to be probable. No one chip gives you the answer for everything. No one chip stays in the same place throughout your entire life. The secret is to keep adding voices, adding ideas, and moving things around as you put together your life. If you're lucky, putting together your life is a process that will last through every single day you're alive. crossroads hope inspiration lessons life patchett wisdom Ann Patchett
d4200f3 That's what being alive is, Thing! It's being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! inspiration life Terry Pratchett
5ab42bf "Yesterday it was sun outside. The sky was blue and people were lying under blooming cherry trees in the park. It was Friday, so records were released, that people have been working on for years. Friends around me find success and level up, do fancy photo shoots and get featured on big, white, movie screens. There were parties and lovers, hand in hand, laughing perfectly loud, but I walked numbly through the park, round and round, 40 times for 4 hours just wanting to make it through the day. There's a weight that inhabits my chest some times. Like a lock in my throat, making it hard to breathe. A little less air got through and the sky was so blue I couldn't look at it because it made me sad, swelling tears in my eyes and they dripped quietly on the floor as I got on with my day. I tried to keep my focus, ticked off the to-do list, did my chores. Packed orders, wrote emails, paid bills and rewrote stories, but the panic kept growing, exploding in my chest. Tears falling on the desk tick tick tick me not making a sound and some days I just don't know what to do. Where to go or who to see and I try to be gentle, soft and kind, but anxiety eats you up and I just want to be fine. This is not beautiful. This is not useful. You can not do anything with it and it tries to control you, throw you off your balance and lovely ways but you can not let it. I cleaned up. Took myself for a walk. Tried to keep my eyes on the sky. Stayed away from the alcohol, stayed away from the destructive tools we learn to use. the smoking and the starving, the running, the madness, thinking it will help but it only feeds the fire and I don't want to hurt myself anymore. I made it through and today I woke up, lighter and proud because I'm still here. There are flowers growing outside my window. The coffee is warm, the air is pure. In a few hours I'll be on a train on my way to sing for people who invited me to come, to sing, for them. My own songs, that I created. Me--little me. From nowhere at all. And I have people around that I like and can laugh with, and it's spring again. alcohol anxiety art balance be-okay chest coffee crying drinking ed fine flowers focus grateful gratitude happiness hope hopeful hopeless hurt inspiration joy lovely lovers madness mental-health music new-day okay panic panic-attack panic-attacks park recovery sad sadness self-destruction self-harm sing singing sky smoking songs sound spring starving tears walking well-being wellness Charlotte Eriksson
feddf18 "Then it happened. One night as the rain beat on the slanted kitchen roof a great spirit slipped forever into my life. I held his book in my hands and trembled as he spoke to me of man and the world, of love and wisdom, pain and guilt, and I knew I would never be the same. His name was Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky. He knew more of fathers and sons than any man in the world, and of brothers and sisters, priests and rogues, guilt and innocence. Dostoyevsky changed me. The Idiot, The Possessed, The Brothers Karamazov, The Gambler. He turned me inside out. I found I could breathe, could see invisible horizons. The hatred for my father melted. I loved my father, poor, suffering, haunted wretch. I loved my mother too, and all my family. It was time to become a man, to leave San Elmo and go out into the world. I wanted to think and feel like Dostoyevsky. I wanted to write. The week before I left town the draft board summoned me to Sacramento for my physical. I was glad to go. Someone other than myself could make my decisions. The army turned me down. I had asthma. Inflammation of the bronchial tubes. "That's nothing. I've always had it." "See your doctor." I got the needed information from a medical book at the public library. Was asthma fatal? It could be. And so be it. Dostoyevsky had epilepsy, I had asthma. To write well a man must have a fatal ailment. It was the only way to deal with the presence of death." inspiration writing John Fante
98cdf3e "Let's burn our masks at midnight and as flickering flames ascend, under the witness of star-clouds, let us vow to reclaim our true selves. Done with hiding and weary of lying, we'll reconcile without and within. Then, like naked squint-eyed newborns, we'll greet the glorious birth of dawn; authenticity being-real burn carpe-diem inspiration inspirational masks motivational motivational-quotes real true-self true-selves John Mark Green
13bdece Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. inspiration knowledge passion George Eliot
1b5e908 "The king was silent. "Ents!" he said at length. "Out of the shadows of legend I begin a little to understand the marvel of the trees, I think. I have lived to see strange days. Long we have tended our beasts and our fields, built our houses, wrought our tools, or ridden away to help in the wars of Minas Tirith. And that we called the life of Men, the way of the world. We cared little for what lay beyond the borders of our land. Songs we have that tell of these things, but we are forgetting them, teaching them only to children, as a careless custom. And now the songs have come down among us out of the strange places, and walk visible under the Sun." "You should be glad," Theoden King," said Gandalf. "For not only the little life of Men is now endangered, but the life also of those thing which you have deemed the matter of legend. You are not without allies, even if you know them not." "Yet also I should be sad," said Theoden. "For however the fortune of war shall go, may it not so end that much that was fair and wonderful shall pass for ever out of Middle-earth?" -- hope imagination inspiration war J.R.R. Tolkien
50811b0 Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. inspiration life life-lessons living siddhartha sin Hermann Hesse
a5d2f39 "War crimes, you say? No matter how many policies you put on paper, in reality, there are no rights and wrongs in war. War itself is a crime. War cannot be justified. I believe, the only people, in this world, whose opinions matter, are the ones who go the extra mile to help other people expecting nothing in return. Soldiers who fight fiercely for their country, the doctors in Sri Lanka's public hospitals attending to hundreds of patients at a time for no extra pay , the nuns who voluntarily teach English and math to children of refugee camps in the north, the monks who collect food to feed entire villages during crises, they are the people worth listening to, their opinion matters. So find me one of them who will say: they wish the war didn't end in 2009, that they wish Sri Lanka was divided into two parts. Find me one of them who agrees with the international war crime allegations against Sri Lanka, and I will listen. ife inspiration paulo-coelho sri-lanka war war-crimes Thisuri Wanniarachchi
d8a6312 "Being in love is...anxious," he said. "Wanting to please, worrying that she will see me as I really am. But wanting to be known. That is...you're naked, moaning in the dark, no dignity at all...I wanted her to see me and to love me even though she knew everything I am, and I knew her" inspiration life love love-quotes naked truth Audrey Niffenegger
263f444 Belief isn't supposed to make sense, at least not all the time. In that, it finds its power. It gets to creep up on you and carry you forward. Until you can carry yourself again. inspiration Laura Dave
2cda6ab What is normal? Normal is yesterday and last week and last month taken together important inspiration life normal what-happened what-is-normal Terry Pratchett
fe1b286 Is it possible that the Pentateuch could not have been written by uninspired men? that the assistance of God was necessary to produce these books? Is it possible that ascertained the mechanical principles of 'Virtual Velocity,' the laws of falling bodies and of all motion; that ascertained the true position of the earth and accounted for all celestial phenomena; that discovered his three laws--discoveries of such importance that the 8th of May, 1618, may be called the birth-day of modern science; that gave to the world the Method of Fluxions, the Theory of Universal Gravitation, and the Decomposition of Light; that , , , and , almost completed the science of mathematics; that all the discoveries in optics, hydrostatics, pneumatics and chemistry, the experiments, discoveries, and inventions of , , and , of , and and of all the pioneers of progress--that all this was accomplished by uninspired men, while the writer of the Pentateuch was directed and inspired by an infinite God? Is it possible that the codes of China, India, Egypt, Greece and Rome were made by man, and that the laws recorded in the Pentateuch were alone given by God? Is it possible that and , , and , and , and all the poets of the world, and all their wondrous tragedies and songs are but the work of men, while no intelligence except the infinite God could be the author of the Pentateuch? Is it possible that of all the books that crowd the libraries of the world, the books of science, fiction, history and song, that all save only one, have been produced by man? Is it possible that of all these, the bible only is the work of God? alessandro-volta benjamin-franklin beranger bible bonaventura-cavalieri bonaventura-francesco-cavalieri books burns cavalieri chemistry china copernicus descartes discoveries egypt euclid experiments fiction franklin fulton galileo galileo-galilei galvani goethe gottfried-leibniz gottfried-von-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-leibniz gottfried-wilhelm-von-leibniz greece hydrostatics india inspiration intelligence inventions isaac-newton james-watt johann-von-goethe johann-wolfgang-von-goethe johannes-kepler kepler laws-of-motion leibniz libraries light luigi-aloisio-galvani luigi-galvani math mathematics morse newton nicolaus-copernicus optics pentateuch pierre-jean-de-béranger pioneers pneumatics poets progress rene-descartes richard-trevithick robert-burns robert-fulton rome samuel-finley-breese-morse samuel-morse schiller science shakespeare songs the-bible theory-of-gravity theory-of-universal-gravitation tragedy trevethick volta watt william-shakespeare writer Æschylus Robert G. Ingersoll
a8aaa85 We have learned to see the world in gasps. hope inspiration restriction Margaret Atwood
bdf0b3b Mad Hatter: Am I going mad? Alice: Yes, you're mad, bonkers, off the top of your head...but...I'll tell you a secret. All the best people are. inspiration thoughtful Lewis Carroll
f162cad It was a flight, a kind of fleeing, a kind of falling, falling higher and higher, spinning off the edge of the earth and beyond the sun and through the vast silent vacuum where there were no burdens and where everything weighed exactly nothing. book falling fly flying freedom happiness happy inspiration inspirational life living love Tim O'Brien
9da526e Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear inspiration sunrise Norman Maclean
00eff59 The river reflected whatever it chose of sky and bridge and burning tree, and when the undergraduate had oared his boat through the reflections they closed again, completely, as if they had never been. There one might have sat the clock round lost in thought. Thought --to call it by a prouder name than it deserved-- had let its line down into the stream. It swayed, minute after minute, hither and thither among the reflections and the weeds, letting the water lift it and sink it until --you know the little tug -- the sudden conglomeration of an idea at the end of one's line: and then the cautious hauling of it in, and the careful laying of it out? Alas, laid on the grass how small, how insignificant this thought of mine looked; the sort of fish that a good fisherman puts back into the water so that it may grow fatter and be one day worth cooking and eating. ideas inspiration Virginia Woolf
17e3f95 For the scientist, at exactly the moment of discovery--that most unstable existential moment--the external world, nature itself, deeply confirms his innermost fantastic convictions. Anchored abruptly in the world, Leviathan gasping on his hook, he is saved from extreme mental disorder by the most profound affirmation of the real. discovery inspiration science Richard Rhodes
3a511a2 Lovely thoughts came flying to meet me like birds. They weren't my thoughts. I couldn't think anything half so exquisite. They came from somewhere. inspiration muse L.M. Montgomery
192e277 Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. inspiration perspective Seamus Heaney
63b30fc "* You should read the book that you hear two booksellers arguing about at the registers while you're browsing in a bookstore. * You should read the book that you see someone on the train reading and trying to hide that they're laughing. * You should read the book that you see someone on the train reading and trying to hide that they're crying. * You should read the book that you find left behind in the airplane seat pocket, on a park bench, on the bus, at a restaurant, or in a hotel room. * You should read the book that you see someone reading for hours in a coffee shop -- there when you got there and still there when you left -- that made you envious because you were working instead of absorbed in a book. * You should read the book you find in your grandparents' house that's inscribed "To Ray, all my love, Christmas 1949." * You should read the book that you didn't read when it was assigned in your high school English class. You'd probably like it better now anyway. * You should read the book whose author happened to mention on Charlie Rose that their favorite band is your favorite band. * You should read the book that your favorite band references in their lyrics. * You should read the book that your history professor mentions and then says, "which, by the way, is a great book," offhandedly. * You should read the book that you loved in high school. Read it again. * You should read the book that you find on the library's free cart whose cover makes you laugh. * You should read the book whose main character has your first name. * You should read the book whose author gets into funny Twitter exchanges with Colson Whitehead. * You should read the book about your hometown's history that was published by someone who grew up there. * You should read the book your parents give you for your high school graduation. * You should read the book you've started a few times and keep meaning to finish once and for all. * You should read books with characters you don't like. * You should read books about countries you're about to visit. * You should read books about historical events you don't know anything about. * You should read books about things you already know a little about. * You should read books you can't stop hearing about and books you've never heard of. * You should read books mentioned in other books. * You should read prize-winners, bestsellers, beach reads, book club picks, and classics, when you want to. [ inspiration reading Janet Potter
d4d3165 So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or that it shouldn't be read in school because it is irrelevant, or any of the strange and stupid things that are said about poetry and its place in our lives, I suspect that the people doing the saying have had things pretty easy. A tough life needs a tough language - and that is what poetry is. That is what literature offers - a language powerful enough to to say how it is. It isn't a hiding place. It is a finding place. finding-meaning healing inspiration literature philosophy poetry reading solace tough-life Jeanette Winterson
120dd15 I might be 30 years old, but a girl never outgrows the need for her mother. humor inspiration truth Debbie Macomber
b7f0922 There are reasons we congregate in these hot spots- to worship beauty and to feel its effects light up the electrolytes in the bloodstream. inspiration nature Frances Mayes
aebe215 I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred. faith inspiration Terry Tempest Williams
e517f7b "On my website there's a quote from the writer Anthony Burgess: "The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind." I've always found that inspiring because the written word, as an art form, is unlike any other: movies, TV, music, they're shared experiences, but books aren't like that. The relationship between a writer and a reader is utterly unique to those two individuals. The world that forms in your head as you read a book will be slightly different to that experienced by every other reader. Anywhere. Ever. Reading is very personal, a communication from one mind to another, something which can't be exactly copied, or replicated, or directly shared. books inspiration inspirational novel novelist reading writing written-word Simon Cheshire
b67626e "When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is "really" there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again." from Coleridge: Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread" inspiration Karen Armstrong
d9e2c4f One thing, however, did become clear to him--why so many perfect works of art did not please him at all, why they were almost hateful and boring to him, in spite of a certain undeniable beauty. Workshops, churches, and palaces were full of these fatal works of art; he had even helped with a few himself. They were deeply disappointing because they aroused the desire for the highest and did not fulfill it. They lacked the most essential thing--mystery. That was what dreams and truly great works of art had in common: mystery. beauty beauty-in-art inspiration mystery Hermann Hesse
c9f8131 No matter what the industry you choose to ultimately invest all your time and energy in, be sure you're the owner, founder, and CEO. Remember, if you don't own it, you can't control it nor can you depend on it. brandi-l-bates-quotes brendon-burchard ceo chess elizabeth-gilbert entrepreneur entrepreneurship entrepreneurship-quotes inspiration investments money motivation ownership personal-development self-help-inspirational success wealth Brandi L. Bates
b981078 What would people think?' Jesus said that people think all sorts of things. The human mind is like a cloud of gnats. Constant motion. That's why you have to look at the heart. 'Oh,' said Grandpa. humor inspiration jesus Garrison Keillor
38a67a4 Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [...] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need. eating-disorder ed hope inspiration recovery Jenni Schaefer
5f35595 There's a kid or some kids somewhere. I'll never know them. They're particle-puzzle-cubing right now. They might be mini-misanthropes from Moosefart, Montana. They might be demi-dystopians from Dogdick, Delaware. They dig my demonic dramas. The metaphysic maims them. They grasp the gravity. They'll duke it out with their demons. They'll serve a surfeit of survival skills. They won't be chronologically crucified. They'll shore up my shit. They'll radically revise it. They'll pass it along. ideas inspiration reading writing James Ellroy
b091499 The first problem of any kind of even limited success is the unshakable conviction that you are getting away with something, and that at any moment now they will discover you. It's Imposter Syndrome, something my wife Amanda christened The Fraud Police. In my case, I was convinced that there would be a knock on the door, and a man with a clipboard (I don't know why he carried a clipboard, in my head, but he did) would be there, to tell me it was all over, and they had caught up with me, and now I would have to go and get a real job, one that didn't consist of making things up and writing them down, and reading books I wanted to read. creative-writing fraud-police funny inspiration make-good-art neil-gaiman writing Neil Gaiman
885ea6e But perhaps it is always so, that men form their conceptions from fictitious, conventional types, and then--all the combinations made--they are tired of the fictitious figures and begin to invent more natural, true figures. drawing inspiration life perception writing Leo Tolstoy
c1d32ca The process of miraculous change is twofold. One: I see my error or dysfunctional pattern. Two: I ask God to take it from me. The first principle without the second is impotent. As they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, your best thinking got you here. You're the problem but you're not the answer. The second principle isn't enough to change us either. The Holy Spirit can't take from us what we will not release to him. He won't work without our consent. He cannot remove our character defects without our willingness, because that would be violating our free will. We chose those patterns, however mistakenly, and he will not force us to give them up. In asking God to heal us, we're committing to the choice to be healed. free-will inspiration miracles Marianne Williamson
31ee3c5 How could he explain it in a way Leslie would understand, how he yearned to reach out and capture the quivering life about him and how when he tried, it slipped past his fingertips, leaving a dry fossil upon the page? inspiration Katherine Paterson
4a50286 When the wounded were screaming, you dreamed of sharing a little house somewhere, of an ordinary life, of a family line, connection. All around him, men were walking silently with their thoughts, reforming their lives, making resolutions. If I ever get out of this lot... They could never be counted, the dreamed-up children, mentally conceived on the walk into Dunkirk, and later made flesh. family family-relationships inspiration love soldiers war Ian McEwan
d7a93ba Why do they have windows? Is it to let a glimpse of the world in? Or for us to see out? Our own place is small perhaps, but when your old man is eaten up by his own shadow, you realize maybe that in every house, something so savage and sad and brilliant is standing up, without the world even seeing it. Maybe that's what these pages of words are about. Bringing the world to the window. fight inspiration life understanding-life Markus Zusak
35292de To dream in doctrines, how tidy! inspiration legalism rules John le Carré
a939035 When it come to creative inspiration, job titles and hierarchy are meaningless. hierarchy inspiration Ed Catmull
0b0379b You know, all poetry may be a cry of generalised love, for this, or that, or the universe - which must be loved in its particularity, not its generality, but for its universal life in every minute particular. I have always supposed it to be a cry of ;unsatisfied love; - and so it may be indeed - for satisfaction may surfeit it and so it may die. I know many poets who write only when in an exalted state of mind which they compare to ;being in love;,when they do not simply state, that they are in love, that they seek love - for this fresh damsel - or that lively young woman - in order to find a fresh metaphor, or a new bright vision of things in themselves. And to tell you the truth, I have always believed I could diagnose this state of ;being in love; which they regard as ;most particular;, as inspired by item, one pair of black eyes or indifferent blue, ;item;, one graceful attitude of body or mind, ;item;, one female history of some twenty-two years from, shall we say 1821-1844 - I have always believed this ;in love; to be of something of the most abstract masking itself under the particular forms of both lover and beloved. And Poet who assumes and informs both. inspiration love women A.S. Byatt
897bf6f What determines each person's state of happiness or unhappiness is not the event itself, but what the event means to that person. inspiration life philosophy zen zen-and-the-art-of-happiness Chris Prentiss
827ef7b If you can dream and not make dreams your master guidance inspiration resilience Rudyard Kipling
6cbe1e8 Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard. inferiority inferiority-complex inspiration inspirational lessons Maria Shriver
777849f In the height of the gusts, in my high position, where the seas did not break, I found myself compelled to cling tightly to the rail to escape being blown away. My face was stung to severe pain by the high-driving spindrift, and I had a feeling that the wind was blowing the cobwebs out of my sleep-starved brain. inspiration Jack London
563338e "Devereaux is going with our pitch." "Hey, that's just great," I said superperkily. "Wendell's or mine?" "Yours." "But you want to fire me. So fire me." "We can't fire you. They loved you. The head guy, Leonard Daly, thought you were, I quote, 'a great kid, very courageous' and a natural to do a whispering campaign. He said you had believability." "That's too bad." "Why? You're not quitting!" I thought about it. "Not if you don't want me to. Do you?" Go on, say it. 298 elavanilla "No." "No what?" "No, we don't want you to quit." "Ten grand more, two assistants, and charcoal suits. Take it or leave it." Ariella swallowed. "Okay to the money, okay to the assistants, but I can't green-light charcoal suits. Formula Twelve is Brazilian, we need carnival colors." "Charcoal suits or I'm gone." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Orange." "Charcoal." "Okay, charcoal." It was an interesting lesson in power. The only time you truly have it is when you genuinely don't care whether you have it or not. "Right," I said. "I'm giving myself the rest of the day off." inspiration job power promotion Marian Keyes
9258267 It occurred to him that his scarcely perceptible attempts to struggle against what was considered good by the most highly placed people, those scarcely noticeable impulses which he had immediately suppressed, might have been the real thing, and all the rest false. human-nature inspiration life morality philosophy psychology societal-expectations society Leo Tolstoy
3d76c90 "I'm beginning to think that maybe it's okay to be a blank canvas. Maybe it's okay that my future is unknown. And maybe," I say with another smile, "it's okay to be inspired by the people who do know their future." future inspiration isla-and-the-happily-ever-after stephanie-perkins Stephanie Perkins
2bf4ceb Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself. imitation inspiration meditation wisdom Jon Kabat-Zinn
eff644f Want to change the world? Upset the status quo? This takes more than run-of-the-mill relationships. You need to make people dream the same dream that you do. inspiration inspirational-quotes Guy Kawasaki
cece941 Sunrise is the time to feel that you will be able to find out how to help somebody close to you who you think needs help even if he doesn't think so. At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear inspiration sunrise Norman Maclean
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