#boo

The roller coaster is my life; Life is a fast, dizzying game. Life is a parachute jump; it's taking chances; falling over and getting up again. It's mountaineering; it's wanting to get to the very top of yourself and to feel angry and dissatisfied when you don't manage it. But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that "good enough" is very different from the "Best. ↗

— Paulo Coehlo

#eleven-minutes #inspirational #motivational #nuggets-in-life #inspirational

Lord, you're the only one I can truly confide in without you judging me, or throwing dirt back in my face months later. ↗

— Colishia S. Benjamin

#inspirational-quotes #poetryoflifebook #quotes #inspirational

To write a book is for all the world like humming a song—be but in tune with yourself, madam, 'tis no matter how high or low you take it. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#inspiration #writing #inspirational

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. ↗

— Craig Mercier

#help #helping-others #inspirational #motivationa-and-inspirational #motivational

Imagine what humans could do, if we all worked together like an ant colony...minus the queen. ↗

— Justin D. Hill

#imagination

His bedroom was a reflection of Bryant's mind, its untidy shelves filled with games and puzzles stacked in ancient boxes, statues and mementoes competing for space with books on every subject imaginable, from Sensation and Perception in the History of Experimental Psychology to Illustrated British Ballads and A History of Indian Philosophy. "What are you reading at the moment?' asked May. "Batman," said Bryant. "The drawings are terribly good. ↗

— Christopher Fowler

#humor #reading #imagination

I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#inspirational #on-writing #reading #inspirational

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#inspirational #life #stargirl #tears #inspirational

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ↗

— Eudora Welty

#creativity #inspiration #literature #reading #storytelling

If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled. ↗

— Lynn Dove

#christian #inspiration #life #teen #inspirational