#inspirationa

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #motivational #tolkien

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on when others have let go. ↗

— William Feather

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To realize one's Personal Legend is a person's only real obligation. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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I think that if you have a horse, pegasus, qilin, or unicorn, you should sit on it! You should stroke its hair, whisper in its ear, be one with it! And you shouldn't feel sorry if other people don't have one. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #on-horseback #pegasus #qilin #self-empowerment

Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? ↗

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

#heart-wrenching #inspirational #inspirational

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself. ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#inspirational #self #inspirational

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. ↗

— Phyllis A. Whitney

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and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#philosophy #inspirational

Look beyond yourself. ↗

— Michael J. Jackson

#life-lesson #inspirational

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. ↗

— Margery Williams

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