#ago

It has been said that a lot of women of our generation "grew up to be the men they always wanted to marry ↗

let no one rule your mind or body. Take special care that your thoughts remain unfettered. One may be a free man and yet be bound tighter than a slave. Give men your ear, but not your heart. Show respect for those in power, but don’t follow them blindly. Judge with logic and reason, but comment not ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

Sometimes the solutions to our problems come from looking backwards, not forwards. ↗

— Jane V. Blanchard

#inspirational #inspirational

Fantasy elevates ordinary and eternal problems of young people into stories via the language of myth. It turns “No one really knows me” into “I’ve got a secret identity.” It turns “I don’t understand why other people act the way they do” into “I’m trapped in a faerie realm.” It turns “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell” into “my high school must have been built over the mouth of hell.” There are certain things in life that are glorious, and they are glorious for everyone. There are more that are hard, and they are hard for everyone. We like to see these things retold, but with dragons. ↗

— Erin Bow

#fantasy #inspirational #writing #inspirational

I'm American to the core. So please forgive me if I say some foolish things when I'm overseas. It's my birthright." The Best Way--El Camino de Santiago (2012) ↗

— Bill Walker

#forgiveness

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

He had reached his goal. He had climbed the unclimbable mountain ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#inspirational #philosophy #inspirational

Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric. ↗

— Thomas Sowell

#blood #cheap #cost #freedom #much

At the bottom of the pit, there is nothing to fear; above the clouds, there is nothing to hide. ↗