#inspiration

America without her Soldiers would be like God without His angels. ↗

— Claudia Pemberton

#military #soldiers #inspirational

It's not how you look, it's how you feel in the dark ↗

— Paula Wall

#humor

As someone who grew up in the Bronx, I certainly learned my share of four-letter words, but none are more powerful than nice. ↗

— Linda Kaplan Thaler

#inspirational #self-improvement #humor

Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you? ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#inspirational

What she had long believed was not true, and now the world was wide open to discover what was. It is like all my life I thought the sky was green. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#inspirational

sometimes we have absolutely no idea where we are, we need the smallest clue to show us where to begin. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#lessons #life #inspirational

Love was that way. You could not render it in black or white. It always came down to the strange, blended shades of grey. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#love #inspirational

Love cures people, both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it. ↗

— Karl A. Menninger

#love #inspirational

Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song – if you please! But it seems, before they can launch a song, poets must tramp for days with callused feet, and the sluggish fish of the imagination flounders softly in the slush of the heart. And while, with twittering rhymes, they boil a broth of loves and nightingales, the tongueless street merely writhes for lack of something to shout or say ↗

— Vladimir Mayakovsky

#imagination #inspiration #novels #writing #imagination

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#anonymity #inspirational #isolation #imagination