#dr

Don't ever give up. Don't ever give in. Don't ever stop trying. Don't ever sell out. And if you find yourself succumbing to one of the above for a brief moment, pick yourself up, brush yourself off, whisper a prayer, and start where you left off. But never, ever, ever give up. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dedication #drive #eena #inspirational #perserverance

Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#fiction #inspirational #romance #inspirational

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #inspirational #life #self-empowerment #victim-mentality

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. That word, reader, was adieu... Adieu is the French word for farewell. “Farewell” is not the word you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by two oversize mice in black hoods... “Farewell” is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#inspirational #writing-from-the-heart #inspirational

Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! ↗

— Gaston Bachelard

#shells #spirals #dreams

Simplicity is complex. ↗

— Jayce O'Neal

#inspirational #jayce #jayceoneal #inspirational

. . . simplicity in its pure form can lighten up the tough. ↗

— Dr. Bee

#inspirational #self-help #spirituality #inspirational

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspiration #janis-joplin #jim-morrison #music #originality

There is just so very much I can't do. I don't drive, for one. ↗

— Nikki Cox

#i #just #much #very

Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#forgiveness #grudges #memory #savant-syndrome #forgiveness