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We try so hard because it is all we've ever known, I thought. We try to fit ourselves into this world so that we don't seem more different than different, an oddity in a sea of normality. We try because it is only instinct, but we obey because it is law. ↗

— Nadège Richards

#decisions #differences #inspirational #life #love

I'm holding up, Lord willing and the creek don't rise. ↗

— Sara Evans

#inspirational #inspirational

You cannot do harm to someone because someone has done harm to you. You will pay just like they will. ↗

— Ericka Williams

#harm #inspirational #karma #inspirational

frustration, complication and misery are available in abundance, but so is God's grace. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#religious #inspirational

As long as there’s breath in You - PERSIST! ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#persistence #inspirational

One of the best gifts you can give to someone, is a wider perspective. It's also one of the best gifts you can receive. So if you have given someone a wider perspective, don't feel bad about it (about taking their blindfolds off and having to watch them cringe in the newfound sunlight); I know it's hard, but you're doing them a lasting favor. And a wider perspective can be difficult for you yourself to accept, in the beginning (during the time that you squint while the sunlight stings your own eyes), but later you'll find yourself coming back to it, even if you abandoned it as something worthless; you'll look for it, one day. Or it will grow on you. Perspective. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#giving-perspective #inspirational-quotes #perspective #perspective-is-a-gift #realizing-perspective

It is too late." The old man shook his head. "It is never too late or too soon. It is when it is supposed to be." He smiled. "There is a plan, Dor. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#inspirational #late #plan #time #inspirational

And he'd railed at her, his voice booming so loud the bed had seem to shake. "You canna do this - take my goddamned heart and then leave me! You think I will no' follow?" She knew he was constantly there, was aware of his movement and comprehended his words, but she couldn't seem to open her heavy eyelids or speak. At night, he would wrap his body around hers, keeping her warm, whispering against her hair, "You enjoy being contrary. Then prove them all wrong and get better." He'd clutched her hip, then balled his fist there. ↗

— Kresley Cole

#ethan-maccarrick #inspirational #love #maddy #romance

The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit. ↗

— Jack Kornfield

#inspirational

It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be. ↗

— Ursula K. Le Guin

#fantasy #inspirational #magic #inspirational