#elf

Everything in this world was so new, so wonderful and strange--like things in my old world, but better []For sixteen years my soul had been drawn towards this place, this alien homeland, toward its rainbow sunrises and whispering trees" Breena Bitter Frost (on the brink of discovery; about why she never quite felt like she belonged in the land over the Crystal River) ↗

— Kailin Gow

#self-discovery #inspirational

Feeling sorry for yourself is a universal solvent of salvation. ↗

— Paul Hoffman

#cale #feel #four #god #greatest

We live in our tales of ourselves, she thought, and ignore as best we can the contradictions, and the lapses, and the abrasions of plot against our mortal souls... ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#story #storytelling #men

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things, the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

#pacifism #sacrifice #selfishness #war #men

The human spirit will not invest itself in a compromise. ↗

— Robert Fritz

#self-development #spiritual #inspirational

When things are exceptionally hard, there is a reason why they’re hard; and it’s usually because they’re not meant to be and we’re not listening. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham SAVVY Ingredients for Success

#life-challenges #listening-to-inner-self #listening-to-your-heart #motivational-quotes #inspirational

If you cannot do great things in life, make sure you do the small things in a great way. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#inspirational #motivational #self-improvement #success #inspirational

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #delight #favor #god #happiness

Be the winner in your life! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#inspirational #quotes #self-esteem #winner #inspirational

When you get born your father and mother lost something out of themselves, and they are going to bust a ham trying to get it back, and you are it. They know they can't get it all back but they will get as big a chunk out of you as they can. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#selfishness #men