#cover

The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. ↗

— Criss Jami

#despair #despair-hope #encouraging #facet #hope

Learn to be brave and adventurous because you’ll never discover your place in the world, if you’re too afraid to leave your own backyard. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#self-confidence #self-discovery #self-help #self-improvement #inspirational

Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River) ↗

— Kailin Gow

#self-discovery #inspirational

I will not leave a corner of my consciousness covered up, but saturate myself with the strange and extraordinary new conditions of this life, and it will all refine itself into poetry later on. ↗

— Isaac Rosenberg

#consciousness #corner #covered #extraordinary #i

Our wounds are not a measure of one individual’s sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others. ↗

— Lynn C. Tolson

#inspirational #recovery #inspirational

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries. ↗

— A. A. Milne

#being #constantly #discoveries #disorderly #exciting

I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#instinct #knowledge #search #seekers #self-awareness

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them. ↗

— Morgan Matson

#inspirational #inspirational

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#ours #recover #tomorrow #win #win or lose

It is easier to live through someone else than to complete yourself. The freedom to lead and plan your own life is frightening if you have never faced it before. It is frightening when a woman finally realizes that there is no answer to the question 'who am I' except the voice inside herself. ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #identity #independence #living-vicariously #self-discovery