#iona

I smell heaven, the moment your voice makes its way from my ears to heart, it just happens, everytime. I would be as mad for you as you want me to be. I swear. Maybe, I am not privileged enough to afford the luxury of having you..., but still I would try. I would keep on trying...even if you are indifferent to it, even if my heart forgets to beat... ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#beat #crazy #enough #forgets #happens

My mama taught me the most important lesson of all: "Sometimes you don't know why things happen until later." She still gets me through the dark days even to this day, because of that one day we sat in the grass, with my heart broken to smithereens, and she told me that one simple phrase that changed my life. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#change

...Chanel didn't start out with a mission statement, nor a corporate vision, nor a roadmap for success, nor timeline for achieving her goals, nor an action item list, nor any of those other high-falutin' concepts we associate with mega modern multinational success stories. ↗

— Karen Karbo

#inspirational

Because those events are so real that they cast their shadow forward and backwards through all time, whenever men think of these matters at all. Even if they are mired in ignorace, they will see...fragments of the Truth, as men imprisoned in a cave see shadows cast by the sun. Likewise, all men derive their moral intuitions from God; how not? There is no other source, just as there is no other way to make a wheel than to make it round. ↗

— S.M. Stirling

#religious #inspirational

Real travel would be to see the world, for even an instant, with another's eyes ↗

— Robyn Davidson

#inspirational

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live. ↗

— Eleanor H. Porter

#inspirational

But I spoke hastily. We must not be hasty. I have become too hot. I must cool myself and think; for it is easier to shout stop! than to do it. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #think #treebeard #inspirational

never trust a man who won't accept that there is more than one way to spell a word Paraphrased ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspirational

Just because we've never done it doesn't mean we can't do it. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#inspirational

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#inspirational