#inspirationa

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… countless books unwritten… countless songs unsung... I want to live my life in such a way that when my body is laid to rest, it will be a well needed rest from a life well lived, a song well sung, a book well written, opportunities well explored, and a love well expressed. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#books #cemetery #dreams #echoes #goals

Belief creates the actual fact. ↗

— William James

#actual #belief #creates #fact

I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#beauty

There is a time and place for everything, you just have to wait for the right moment. Once it comes it will be the most beautiful and perfect thing possible! ↗

— Gloria Tesch

#inspirational #life #quotes #timeless #beauty

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart. ↗

— Helen Keller

#beautiful #beautiful things #best #cannot #even

I am very conscious of who I am as an artist and as an inspirational person. ↗

— R. Kelly

#artist #conscious #i #i am #inspirational

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be called deformed but the unkind: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil Are empty trunks, o'erflourished by the devil. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#beauty

Bodily delight is a sensory experience, not any different from pure looking or the pure feeling with which a beautiful fruit fills the tongue; it is a great, an infinite learning that is given to us, a knowledge of the world, the fullness and the splendor of all knowledge...the individual...can remember that all beauty in animals and plants is a silent, enduring form of love and yearning, and he can see the animal, as he sees plants, patiently and willingly uniting and multiplying and growing, not out of physical pleasure, not out of physical pain, but bowing to necessities that are greater than pleasure and pain, and more powerful than will and withstanding. If only human beings could more humbly receive this mystery---which the world is filled with... ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#love #pleasure #beauty

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#ignorance #knowledge #mother #which #wonder

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#back #fear #hold #out #striking