#iona

I don't beg, it's beneath me ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielson

#inspirational

If your not living on the edge, your taking up way too much space! ↗

— Devin C. Hughes

#devin-c-hughes #inspirational

Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no place so secret- no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,- save on this very scaffold! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#inspirational

When she quieted the jet engine buzz of worries assaulting her brain, when she stopped thinking altogether and just felt, she knew this was right. Feeling the silence of peace and conviction was so foreign to her she wasn't even sure what to do with it. ↗

— Erin McCarthy

#feeling #inspirational #mccarthy #inspirational

It's the plain truth: without Richard Parker, I wouldn't be alive today to tell you my story ↗

— Yann Martel Life of Pi

#life #life-of-pi #richard-parker #inspirational

Death has become so predictable that I have neither the youthful reverence of it nor the middle-age fear. ↗

— Meghna Pant

#despair #inspirational #loneliness #old-age #age

My family was loving... they were very supportive and very affectionate, and basically I could do what I wanted, and basically it wasn't anything dangerous, thank God. ↗

— Bob Balaban

#anything #basically #could #dangerous #family

Acting is my career and activism is my passionate hobby. But acting is my livelihood. ↗

— William Baldwin

#activism #career #hobby #livelihood #passionate

The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

#creatures #enlightenment #into #leads #mankind

Beauty is finding the right fit, the natural fit. To be perfect, you have to feel perfect about yourself. Avoid trying to be someone you're not. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational #son-of-neptune #beauty