#iona

We pencil-sketch our previous life so we can contrast it to the technicolor of the moment. ↗

— David Levithan

#inspirational

Extraordinary things only happen to extraordinary people. Maybe it's a sign that you've got an extraordinary destiny--something greater than you could've imagined. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#imagination

Wisdom is not guaranteed with age but is realized through one's sensitivity to humanity and the universe ↗

— I. Alan Appt

#philosophy #psychology #self-help #spirituality #age

My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#inspirational #salvation #inspirational

...she imagines her body curled in the narrow monk's bed, knees to chin, her own irrefutable geography, but she sees the blood of her futile heart seeping out over her chest and arms and legs, flooding across the rough wooden floor, down the narrow wooden stairs and out into the old soil of the garden. No roses, no, she does not even ask to make roses, just dissolution; most any night she asks just for that. ↗

— Michelle Latiolais

#emptiness #grief #grieving #loss #lost-love

it will come to you faster then you can imagine, if you can only wait ↗

— Marcin Szafraniec

#imagination

Scars are just another kind of memory. ↗

— M.L. Stedman

#inspirational-quotes #memory #scars #inspirational

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path ↗

— Tahir Shah

#inspirational-quotes #success #imagination

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#inspirational

[I]t is the glory of London that it is always ending and beginning anew, and that a visitor, with a good eye and indefatigable feet, will find in her travels all the Londons she has ever met in the pages of books, one atop the other, like the strata of the Earth. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#cities #city-life #fictional-london #history #life