#insp

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen. ↗

— David McCullough

#historical #inspirational #literary #women #inspirational

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #les-miserables #wisdom #inspirational

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant! ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#heartbroken #inspirational #love #sensitive #inspirational

Laughter and irony are at heart reminders that we are not prisoners in this world, but voyagers through it. ↗

— Eben Alexander III

#inspirational #irony #laughter #religion #world

Oh life, you should never had begun, but since you did, you should never end ↗

— Baltasar Gracián

#inspirational

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King

#empowerment #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

Best way to get rid of pain is to have some more of it....you will feel better!! ↗

— rahul

#life #philosophy #philosophy-of-life #time #trust

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. ↗

— Donald Miller

#music #inspirational

People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them. ↗

— James McGregor

#inspirational #people #philosophical #inspirational

Believe with all your heart that you will do what you were made to do. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#motivational #inspirational