#ear

...what happens when you return and find nothing but a hollowed shell, shingles and floor, walls and echoes and the light that lead you here has now burned out and the ones who built it have traveled afar and you cant go to them, no matter what shoes you wear. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#dorothy #grief #grieving #heart #heartache

A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. ↗

— Paul Valéry

#transformation #weariness #work #writing #death

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#fears #keep #others #share #your

I am my own biggest critic. Before anyone else has criticized me, I have already criticized myself. But for the rest of my life, I am going to be with me and I don't want to spend my life with someone who is always critical. So I am going to stop being my own critic. It's high time that I accept all the great things about me. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#bravery #courage #critic #critical #criticism

It's the heart afraid of breaking that never learns to dance. ↗

— Amanda McBroom

#breaking #dance #heart #learns #never

Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We're afraid.' 'Come to the edge.' 'We can't. We will fall!' 'Come to the edge.' And they came. And he pushed them. And they flew. ↗

— Guillaume Apollinaire

#courage

This all comes down to what we know about life on Earth. ↗

— Margaret Turnbull

#comes #down #earth #know #life

We have nothing to fear but fear itself," Otto replied. "Oh, and a megalomaniacal headmaster, the world's deadliets assassin, giant mutated plant monsters, an international cartel of supervillains, and the security forces of every country on earth, but other than that...just fear. ↗

— Mark Walden

#fear #humor #courage

But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. ↗

— Garth Nix

#fantasy #fear #courage

Yet though I must lose my life, fear shall never make me change colour. ↗

— W.A. Neilson

#courage #fear #change