#inspiration

You can please some of the people all of the time, you can please all of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all of the people all of the time”. ↗

— John Lydgate

#proverb #inspirational

But there simply was no grey area for him. There was only black, white, and annoying. ↗

— G.A. Aiken

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...the strands that connect us are frail, so don't hang great weights on slender wires... ↗

— John Geddes

#frailty #weights #wires #wisdom #wisdom-inspirational

Inspiration was a temperamental guest. It dropped in unannounced, then left without so much as a goodbye, slipping out a window in the dead of night or sauntering out the front door, leaving the house empty, drafty, and cold. ↗

— Eric Wilson

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An insightful book possesses the ability to speak to you ↗

— I.R. Shankar

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Do not let the hero in your soul perish... ↗

— Ayn Rand

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Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves. ↗

— Ramani Durvasula

#fear #inspirational #inspirational

But just remember: a woman's like a rose; if you treat her right, she'll bloom, if you don't, she'll wilt. ↗

— Fireproof

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But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#luck #inspirational

The task of the artist at any time is uncompromisingly simple — to discover what has not yet been done, and to do it. ↗

— Craig Raine

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