#ear

Only the broken heart has the ghost of a chance to grieve, to forgive, to long, to transform." Christina Baldwin, author of Life's Companion, Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice, 1990. Used with author's permission ↗

— Judith-Victoria Douglas

#forgive #grieve #long #transform #forgiveness

Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#fear #forgiveness #gtd #laziness #lazy

But his wife was his first and only love, and it was the nature of those from the tiny shtetl to forgive their first and only loves, so he forced himself to understand, or pretend to understand. ↗

— Johnathan Safran Foer

#forgiveness

The mercy of forgiveness is brought from the strength to accept any situation given and faced. Spiritual independence and humbleness toward life makes life like a flowing river of release. What happens will happen anyways, and everybody can make mistakes. The important thing is to learn how to make a better future from the mistake. ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#inspiring #learning #life #life-lessons #mercy

People keep asking me, "Where do you get the ideas for your books?" From the worst moments in my life. I call that "literature through disaster." I got the whole Tales from Earth's End Saga that way, as well as Numenon. Don't be afraid of the hard times. ↗

— Sandy Nathan

#inspirational #sandy-nathan #tales-from-earth-s-end #using-hard-timesideas-for-books #where-to-get-inspiration

No matter how many sins you make or how slow you travel back toward God's valley, you are still way ahead of a person who never made a mistake and doesn't know what it is like to climb out of a pit of shame and rise above their temptations. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#daughters-of-god #forgiveness #god #grace #growth

Fear and self-doubt are the deadly enemies of creativity. Don’t invite either into your mind. ↗

— Don Roff

#fear #inspirational #mind #self-doubt #writing

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts. ↗

— John Wooden

#counts #know #learn #you

How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us? ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#environment #inspirational #planet #inspirational

Kosovo's destiny is clearly to join the European Union at some point. ↗

— Emma Bonino

#destiny #european #european union #join #kosovo