#inspirationa

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #success #victim-mentality #victory

I shrug, trapped. I don’t want to lose him. In spite of all his demands, his need to control, his scary vices. I have never felt as alive as I do now. It’s a thrill to be sitting here beside him. He’s so unpredictable, sexy, smart, and funny. But his moods… oh – and he wants to hurt me. He says he’ll think about my reservations, but it still scares me. I close my eyes. What can I say? Deep down I would just like more, more affection, more playful Christian, more… love. ↗

— E.L. James

#funny

For women, shoes are the most important. Good shoes take you good places. ↗

— Seo Min Hyun

#humor #inspirational #shoes #humor

We can become inspired to shape a higher, more ideal future, and when we do, miracles happen. ↗

— James Redfield

#inspiration #optimism #inspirational

No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution; the only wrong is what is against it. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#philosophy #inspirational

For great men, religion is a way of making friends; small people make religion a fighting tool. ↗

— A.P.J. Abdul Kalam

#inspirational

If you need a miracle, be a miracle. ↗

— Phillip C. McGraw

#life #miracle #inspirational

Without the gods, how would I sing?' I asked. With your own voice,' he said. ↗

— Erica Jong

#inspirational #inspirational

Sometimes, when something hurts us, our hearts break a little-in a slightly ... more literal way than for humans. Our pain sort of spills out and onto anyone around us. We call it a cracked heart. ↗

— Brodi Ashton

#romantic #inspirational

Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be. As we do so, we will not only find the joy that every human being seeks--we will also find our path of authentic service in the world. ↗

— Parker J. Palmer

#inspirational