#insp

There is no condition so severe that you cannot reverse it by choosing different thoughts. However, choosing different thoughts requires focus and practise. If you continue to focus as you have been, to think as you have been, and to believe as you have been, then nothing in your experience will change" ~ from 'Ask And It Is Given' ~ ↗

— Mary Ann Hickman

#personal-growth #change

I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#women-s-strength #inspirational

Father Break my heart for what breaks yours Give me open hands and open doors Put your light in my eyes and let me see That my own little world is not about me ↗

— Matthew West

#inspirational #music #prayer #inspirational

There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them. ↗

— Robert James Waller

#inspirational

Everything dies eventually. We all know that. People, cities, whole civilizations. Nothing lasts. So if existence was just binary, dead or alive, here or not here, what would be the fucking point in anything? My mom used to say that's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory - hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can build off our pasts and make futures. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#inspirational #julie #warm-bodies #zombie-apocalypse #inspirational

A scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived. ↗

— Chris Cleave (Author)

#inspirational

Your limits are somewhere up there, waiting for you to reach beyond infinity. ↗

— Arnold Henry

#basketball #inspirational #motivational #nonfiction #inspirational

A realization that the founding principle of existence is what we call love, which works itself out sometimes not clearly, not cleanly, not immediately, nonetheless ineluctably. ↗

— Yann Martel (Author)

#inspirational

O singură femeie e uneori de ajuns pentru a suprima deşertul unuo bărbat. ↗

— Octavian Paler

#inspirational

I never had any doubts about my abilities. I knew I could write. I just had to figure out how to eat while doing this. [Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction, New York Times, April 19, 1992] ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#author-quotes #creative-process #earning-a-living #gift #humor