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Live each day with more peace, passion, energy, and joy. ↗

— Sheri Kaye Hoff

#inspirational #joy #inspirational

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation. ↗

— Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

#inspirational #nation #inspirational

The sooner, the better! ↗

— Franklin W. Dixon

#dixon #hardy-boys #inspirational #short #sooner

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions. ↗

— Paul Brunton

#inspirational #intuition #meditation #inspirational

It's been a long, hard day, and bit by bit you have been transformed into a single, vertical, barely ambulatory ache. All that awaits you now is another long, lonely night on the hard, cold ground. "What am I doing out here?" you ask yourself. "I must be mad!" Indeed, you are mad. Otherwise right now you could be warm and cozy and stretched out in front of your beloved TV, munching popcorn and swigging down ice-cold brew, just like a civilized person. "Oh well," you sigh to yourself. "I'd better stop and get a fire going. ↗

— Patrick F. McManus

#philsophical #inspirational

Can't it be stopped?" said Lina. She shifted around under her blanket, trying to find a place to sit where rocks weren't digging into her. Maybe it can be stopped at the beginning," Maddy said. "If someone sees what's happening and is brave enough to reverse the direction." Reverse the direction?" Yes, turn it around." How would you do that?" You'd do something good," said Maddy. "Or at least you'd keep yourself from doing something bad." But how could you?" said Lina. "When people have been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?" You wouldn't want to," said Maddy. "That's what makes it hard. you do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad. ↗

— Jeanne DuPrau

#decisions #inspirational #right #wrong #inspirational

I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant...I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. ↗

— Jean Webster

#jerusha-abbott #inspirational

Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it ... ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#rhythm #inspirational

Lies do not lie, truth do, In the times of any act lies lie hidden behind. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#truth #inspirational

Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#inspirational #inspirational