#inspirational

onen i-estel edain, u-chebin estel anim (I give hope to men. I keep none for myself.) ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#sadness #inspirational

When the poet Paul Valery once asked Albert Einstein if he kept a notebook to record his ideas, Einstein looked at him with mild but genuine surprise. "Oh, that's not necessary," he replied . "It's so seldom I have one. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#inspiration #inspirational

Man made God in his own image... ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inspirational #life #tragic #inspirational

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise ↗

— Oscar Wilde

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Greatness inspires envy, envy engenders spite, spite spawns lies. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#j-k-rowling #voldemort #inspirational

stand often in the company of dreamers: they tickle your common sense & believe you can achieve things which are impossible. ↗

— Mary Anne Radmacher

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If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. ↗

— Anne Frank

#inspirational #judaism #inspirational

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

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