#inspiratio

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, The person who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#reading #inspirational

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond. ↗

— K.M. Tepe

#philosophical #inspirational

I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning. ↗

— Tracy L. Darity

#inspirational

If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#finance #helping-others #inspiration #noblesse-oblige #success

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville - ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#love #romantic #inspirational

Happiness lies in a large measure of self-forgetfulness, either in work . . . or in the love of others. ♥ ↗

— Everett Ruess

#inspirational

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence. ↗

— Heiner Müller

#writing #inspirational

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#immortal #immortality #inspirational

Excerpt from "The Long Road from Perdition" for the day: "...I've always been drawn to the ocean. It is here that I now feel peaceful and can lose my thoughts while immersed in the deafening sounds of waves crashing around me. The spray and mist of the ocean's past seem to be a living, breathing yet wounded animal. The fury of the waves never settled and the spew of the foam touched all that dared to sit near it. There is no reason to flinch as the waves spray and crash against the shore. It is a natural progression I have learned to endure. However, it is the rescinding of the waves and fluid release of fury that I struggle to understand and coexist with peacefully. I hope one day to master it. ↗

— J.R. Stone

#inspirational #spiritual #inspirational

What do I live for? For the cause that lacks assistance For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance And the good that I can do. ↗

— George Linnaeus Banks

#inspirational