#inspiration

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why, this is Christmas Day! ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#inspirational #inspirational

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#truths #humor

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move. ↗

— Yana Toboso

#mystery #suspense #inspirational

For whatever we lose (a you or a me) It's always ourselves we find in the sea. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#inspirational #love #ocean #quote #sea

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational-life #inspirational

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ... ↗

— John Geddes

#fault-lines #heals #heart #heartbreak #inspiration

I want to be brave, and selfless, and smart, and honest... ↗

— Veronica Roth

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You are defined by the decisions you make. When one bites you in the ass the way you respond to it either makes or breaks you. ↗

— Benjamin Bayani

#inspirational #life #inspirational

I followed a hunch,” she said. “I had to—and I was right. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

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In a society... so madly in love with oxymoron's... ask yourself this... ...when was the last time you ever bought anything for free? ↗

— Non Nomen

#social #the-unwords #unauthor #inspirational