#era

I hope you’re not planning on kicking me,” he said, not even bothering to look up from his book, “as hard as you did those doors.” “I will,” I said, “if the next words out of your mouth are Pierce, you just need to relax. ↗

— Meg Cabot

#john #pierce-oliviera #humor

What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#opera #punctuation #humor

If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world? ↗

— Joan Bauer

#humor #shopping #humor

She realized, when relationships failed to last, it was not because love was no longer present, but because people had stopped believing in themselves and in their partners. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #inspirational #literary-quote #love #poisoning-sylvie

. . . you don’t need a happy ending to move onto a happy beginning. ↗

— Krystal McLean

#happy #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspire #life-quotes

Now there are many, many people in the world, but relatively few with whom we interact, and even fewer who cause us problems. So when you come across such a chance for practicing patience and tolerance, you should treat it with gratitude. It is rare. Just as having unexpectedly found a treasure in your own house, you should be happy and grateful toward your enemy for providing you that precious opportunity. Because if you are ever to be successful in your practice of patience and tolerance, which are critical factors in counteracting negative emotions, it is due to your own efforts and also the opportunity provided by your enemy. ↗

— Dalai Lama XIV

#compassion-wisdom #enemy #inspirational #interaction #kindness

Perseverance is the act of true role models and heroes. ↗

— Liza M. Wiemer

#motivational #perseverance #inspirational

Read for yourselves, read for the sake of your inspiration, for the sweet turmoil in your lovely head. But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition, read the dry sardonic remarks of cynical philosophers like Cioran or even Carl Schmitt, read newspapers, read those who despise, dismiss or simply ignore poetry and try to understand why they do it. Read your enemies, read those who reinforce your sense of what's evolving in poetry, and also read those whose darkness or malice or madness or greatness you can't understand because only in this way will you grow, outlive yourself, and become what you are. ↗

— Adam Zagajewski

#poetry #reading #inspirational

Every second you spend holding someone else back is time not running the race yourself. ↗

— Rebecca Murphy

#inspirational #people-skills #tolerance #inspirational

True inspiration unfolds itself, not by force or it becomes fake. True intuition is also the ability to be observant. ↗

— Chris Messner

#introspection #perception #perseverance #perspective #inspirational