#de

For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be. ↗

— Anonymous

#goal #holy-grail #inspirational #journey #spiritual

Frodo raised his head, and then stood up. Despair had not left him, but the weakness had passed. He even smiled grimly, feeling now as clearly as a moment before he had felt the opposite, that what he had to do, he had to do, if he could, and that whether Faramir or Aragorn or Elrond or Galadriel or Gandalf or anyone else knew about it was beside the purpose. He took his staff in one hand and the phial in his other. When he saw that the clear light was already welling through his fingers, he thrust it into his bosom and held it against his heart. Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#hope #inspirational #inspirational

A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#enough #establishes #failure #only #our

But this convention is about more than re-nominating President Obama. It's about Americans coming together to build one economy - not from the top down, but from the middle class out and the bottom up. ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#bottom #build #class #coming #convention

In an angry fit, my mother had called him an airhead, who couldn't find his brain even if it came knocking on his door. ↗

— Jayde Scott

#humor-inspirational #jayde-scott #humor

As for my brothers,' Zeus said, 'we are thankful -' he cleared his throat, like the words were hard to get out - 'erm, thankful for the aid of Hades.' The Lord of the Dead nodded. He had a smug look on his face, but I figure he'd earned the right. He patted his son Nico on the shoulders, and Nico looked happier than I'd ever seen him. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#humor-inspirational #inspirational #nico-di-angelo #pay-back #zeus

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

Don`t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can`t cross a chasm in two small steps. ↗

— David Lloyd George

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational

[I]f the writer does his job right, what he basically does is remind the reader of how smart the reader is. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#readers #writers #inspirational

As the hero learns, readers learn too. ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#learn #readers #inspirational