#boo

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

— Jane V. Blanchard

#inspirational #inspirational

You 're alive, Bod. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything. If you change the world, the world will change. Potential. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#the-graveyard-book #change

None of us can be proof against the influences that proceed from the persons he associates with. Wherefore, in books and men, let us look out for the best society, that which yields a bracing and wholesome influence. We all know the person for whose company we are the better, though the talk is only about fishing or embroidery. ↗

— Charlotte Mason

#friends #men

I have observed that it is no longer possible for one young man to speak unwarily to another not known to him, except in certain sections of the South and West, and certainly not with a book in his hand. ↗

— Walker Percy

#men

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I shall tell you what I believe. I believe God is a librarian. I believe that literature is holy, Mr. Roper, it is that best part of our souls that we break off and give each other, and God has a special dispensation for it, angels to guard its making and its preservation. -said by Katherine Darnell in Chasing Shakespeares, by Sarah Smith ↗

— Sarah Smith

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An inspired and infallible passage whose meaning you cannot be sure of is not much more useful than an uninspired, fallible passage. ↗

— Robert M. Price

#infallibly #inspired-books #inspirational

Time… Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past. We do not hold on to the now, and We do not treasure the future… We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late. Until it comes no more. ↗

— Michelle Horst

#books #future #inspirational #life-and-living #present

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