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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, The person who never reads lives only one. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#reading #inspirational

Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond. ↗

— K.M. Tepe

#philosophical #inspirational

I can't swim in a sea of mediocrity and pretend I'm not drowning. ↗

— Tracy L. Darity

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. ↗

— Warren Buffett

#finance #helping-others #inspiration #noblesse-oblige #success

I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the York’s broodmare.” I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. “You think to bed me for love and not for children? Isn’t that sin?” His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. “I shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,” - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville - ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#love #romantic #inspirational

El amor consiste en una empatía ilimitada, surgida de lo que el corazón nos revela, que el otro es tan real como nosotros. Y por eso el amor, según lo entiendo, siempre es concreto. Intentar amar a toda la humanidad puede ser una empresa loable, pero curiosamente se centra en uno mismo, en el bienestar moral y espiritual de uno mismo. Mientras que para amar a una persona concreta, e identificarse con sus esfuerzos y alegrías como si fueran propios, uno tiene que renunciar a una parte de sí. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#love #inspirational

In any given situation you will find only what you bring with you... ↗

— Christopher Earle

#motivational #philosophy-of-life #inspirational

This world always says to go somewhere else,but it always ends up on your eyes ↗

— Antonis Remos

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Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Remember, happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely upon what you think. So start each day by thinking of all the things you have to be thankful for. Your future will depend very largely on the thoughts you think today. So think thoughts of hope and confidence and love and success. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#future-inspirational #happiness #hope #love #success