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Rise above the storm and you will find the sunshine. ↗

— Mario Fernández

#perseverance #rise-above #inspirational

I suppose the other thing too many forget is that we were all stories once, each and every one of us. And we remain stories. But too often we allow those stories to grow banal, or cruel or unconnected to each other.We allow the stories to continue, but they no longer have a heart. They no longer sustain us. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#stories #inspirational

لست مسؤولاً عمَّا يعمله الآخرون تجاهك، بل عمَّا تعمله أنت تجاه الآخرين ↗

— سلمان العودة

#inspirational

There's an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer that I've been thinking about a lot while writing this essay. In it, Buffy sacrifices her own life to save her sister, and right before she does, she tells her sister that the hardest thing to do in the world is to live - ironic words coming from someone about to kill herself for the greater good. As I'm writing this, I just keep thinking that Katniss never gets to sacrifice herself. She doesn't get the heroic death. She survives - and that leaves her doing the hardest thing in the world: living in it once so many of the ones she loves are gone. ↗

— Jennifer Lynn Barnes

#hunger-games #death

You become what you want to be, by consistently being what you want to become each day. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#inspirational

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#wisdom #inspirational

If we are abandoned to Jesus we have no ends of our own to serve. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#inspirational

but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again. ↗

— Jane Austen

#inspirational #inspirational

Only a genius can overlook the chaos ↗

— Philosopher 'X'

#humor

The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#inspirational #inspirational