#inspirationa

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn’t fill him with the same enthusiasm ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#writing #inspirational

‎Someone's opinion of you does not have to become your reality. ↗

— Les Brown

#inspirational

He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#inspirational #laughter #inspirational

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated. ↗

— Alexandra Potter

#inspirational

When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#inspirational

There is no such thing as an ordinary life. ↗

— Mark Twain

#inspirational

But I have a secret. You can build walls all the way to the sky and I will find a way to fly above them. You can try to pin me down with a hundred thousand arms, but I wil find a way to resist. I love you. Remember. They cannot take it. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#inspirational

Realizing you're completely unique... even in a crowd ↗

— Antony John

#unique #inspirational

I pity the people who don't like to read, because then they spend their whole lives stuck in this one world and dont get to discover any others. ↗

— Christian Marotti

#inspirational #reading #richard-deneny #inspirational

Water is fluid, soft & yielding but water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield ... what is soft is strong. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#tenacity #inspirational