#ira

I’m not saying that you should deny the difficult events of your life. But the fact that you survived is also a wonderful story to tell. And that story, the story of the way you came through a difficult situation, found resources within yourself or outside of yourself, gleaned from that experience what you wanted and what you didn’t want going forward — that is a story that can inspire you and others to heal and grow. ↗

— Golda Poretsky

#inspirational-quotes #experience

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational

To draw something is to try to capture it FOREVER, if you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#inspirational #jocelyn #love #painting #art

[T]he race is long - to finish first, first you must finish. ↗

— Garth Stein

#art

Vital lives are about action. You can't feel warmth unless you create it, can't feel delight until you play,can't know serendipity unless you risk. ↗

— Joan Erickson

#inspiration #life #risk #serendipity #art

Never judge a work of art by its defects ↗

— Washington Allston

#inspiration #art

We feel understood by people who like us; misunderstood by people who don't -- and those feelings are probably realistic. ↗

— Hugh Prather

#courage

We’re so rarely called on to be Christians, but when we are, we’ve got men like Atticus to go for us. ↗

— Harper Lee

#courage #duty #inspirational #courage

No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ↗

— Greg Kincaind

#endurance #inspirational #persistence #resilience #courage

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#courage #empathy #faith #heroes #inspirational