#elf

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#assert #contained #except #images #itself

Let me tell you something, honey. Fifty percent of life is others trying to push their own agenda on you—their belief system, their views, their convictions. The other fifty percent is you deciding whether or not you’re going to let them. Or if you’re going to form your own opinions. -Miss Velma ↗

— Rachael Wade

#independence #opinions #self-worth #life

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#writing #life

When you stop living your life based on what others think of you real life begins. At that moment, you will finally see the door of self acceptance opened. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#fear #self-acceptance #true-self #life

You've already decided what you're going to do, and all that's left is to set the wheels in motion. I mean, it's your life. Basically, you gotta go with what you think is right. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#life

Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#eye #mind #self-blinded #simple #life

You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not. ↗

— Virginia Euwer Wolff

#identity #life #self #life

When you know that everything matters—that every move counts as much as any other—you will begin living a life of permanent purpose. ↗

— Andy Andrews

#hope #purpose #self-worth #life

We must not be defined by what we do, but we must be what and who we are, then only happen to do what we do! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-outlook #inspirational-quotes #jobs #know-thyself #lot-in-life

She touched something deep in his soul. He didn't believe in love at first sight, but the thought of hurting her made his chest ache. ↗

— Jodie B. Cooper

#love #paranormal-romance #sidhi #soul-mate #teen