#al

...real care means the willingness to help each other in making our brokenness into the gateway to joy. ↗

Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it’s about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It’s about getting up, getting well and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy. Some of this book – perhaps too much – has been about how I learned to do it. Much of it has been about how you can do it better. The rest of it – and perhaps the best of it – is a permission slip: you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough start, you will. ↗

— Stephen King

#writing #inspirational

You must have been working very hard here, with so few distractions.” Mary’s eyes darkened and she looked away. “Not quite as much as I hoped for. At times the loneliness and the unanswered questions can get overwhelming, like very loud voices echoing inside my head, just asking ‘why’ ‘who’ and making me think about my wasted life. ↗

— Olga Núñez Miret

#fbi #police-procedural #psychiatry #rape #serial-killer

Humanity has been institutionalized and we are all the products of commercial and institutional life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#humanity #institution #life

A man's worth depends upon the nobility of his aspirations. ↗

— Hazrat Ali

#inspirational

Nobody can do everything on a first try. ↗

— Ashita no Ousama

#first #hard #human #life #real

A boy in the schoolyard handing out the very same love-letter to a bunch of girls. This is what I think of ‘limited editions’ in art photography. ↗