#from

She was incomparable in her inspired loveliness. Her arms amazed one, as one can be astonished by a lofty way of thinking. Her shadow on the wallpaper of the hotel room seemed the silhouette of her uncorruption. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#lara #page- #inspirational

Try as we might, we write what we write ↗

— bg Thurston

#writing-inspiration #writing-philosophy #writing-style #inspirational

This is poetry, but it is not delicate and fragile, a placid ocean beneath a Bible vese on an inspirational poster. This poetry had testicles. It's rougher than a rodeo. Which is why the cliffs are crowded with spectators ↗

— N.D. Wilson

#inspirational

But is it such a bad thing to live like this for just a little while? Just for a few months of one's life, is it so awful to travel through time with no greater ambition than to find the next lovely meal? Or to learn how to speak a language for no higher purpose than that it pleases your ear to hear it? Or to nap in a garden, in a patch of sunlight, in the middle of the day, right next to your favourite fountain? And then to do it again the next day? ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#from #love #pray #life

How simple life is. It's as simple as this: you're hungry and you eat, you're full and you shit. Between eating and shitting, that's where human life is found. - (Houseboy + Maid, in Tales from Djakarta) ↗

— Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#houseboy-and-maid #jongos-dan-babu #life-between-eating-and-shitting #pramoedya #tales-from-djakarta

Dance above the surface of the world. Let your thoughts lift you into creativity that is not hampered by opinion. ↗

— Red Haircrow

#creative-thinking #creative-writing #creativity #individuality #life

When we are born, when we enter this world, it is as if we signed a pact for the rest of our life, but a day may come when we will ask ourselves Who signed this on my behalf? ↗

— José Saramago

#life

Yeah, isn’t it? Life’s a bitch and then one stabs you. ↗

— Jeaniene Frost

#life

Not only is a book without conflict something no one wants to read, but a life without conflict is something where nothing is gained, nothing is earned, nothing is won. ↗

— A.C. Gaughen

#life

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#life #past #life