#insp

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#mary-schmich #sunscreen #beauty

We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been through enough relationships, you begin to suspect there’s no right person, just different flavors of wrong. Why is this? Because you yourself are wrong in some way, and you seek out partners who are wrong in some complementary way. But it takes a lot of living to grow fully into your own wrongness. And it isn’t until you finally run up against your deepest demons, your unsolvable problems—the ones that make you truly who you are—that we’re ready to find a lifelong mate. Only then do you finally know what you’re looking for. You’re looking for the wrong person. But not just any wrong person: the right wrong person—someone you lovingly gaze upon and think, “This is the problem I want to have.” I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way. Let our scars fall in love. ↗

— Galway Kinnell

#completion #inspirational #love #relationships #inspirational

I don't shop. I buy things that inspire me, that give me emotion. ↗

— Giambattista Valli

#emotion #give #give me #i #inspire

For the first time in history, a private company is organizing a mission to the moon. This mission will inspire countries of the world, citizens, our youth. ↗

— Eric Anderson

#company #countries #first #first time #history

I defied nothing at all. I ignored the law because I didn't know it existed. It didn't occur to me that anyone would want to curb my inspiration. ↗

— Margaret Anderson

#because #curb #defied #existed #i

A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers. ↗

— Gwendolyn Brooks

#enough #get #going #inspired #just

Fashion is the science of appearances, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be. ↗

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#desire #fashion #inspires #rather #science

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#inspiration #ninety-nine #ninety-nine percent #percent #perspiration

As a teenager I was crazy about David Bowie. He was a huge inspiration for me. I dressed a little bit crazily in school and dyed my hair every colour under the sun. ↗

— Clive Owen

#bit #bowie #colour #crazy #david

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself. ↗

— Plato

#itself #soul #talking #thinking