#ira

What if the mightiest word is love, love beyond marital, filial, national. Love that casts a widening pool of light. Love with no need to preempt grievance. In today's sharp sparkle, this winter air, anything can be made, any sentence begun. On the brink, on the brim, on the cusp -- praise song for walking forward in that light. ↗

— Elizabeth Alexander

#inspirational #obama #poetry #inspirational

And we mark our place with bookmarkers/that measure what we've lost ↗

— Simon & Garfunkel

#sad #inspirational

Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. ↗

— Pamela Starr

#dreams

If I stop judging other people, I free myself from being judged, and I can dance! ↗

— Patti Digh

#inspirational

Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you; it is measured by the spirit with which you meet the problems of life. - 1974 ↗

— Harold B. Lee

#inspirational

Sometimes you can cattle rope your heart and sometimes you can't, is all. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#love #romance #teenage-love #inspirational

...'Loving children is what teachers do for extra credit. It's not the main assignment.' 'Seems to me that the extra credit is more important than the main assignment,' observed Cordelia. ↗

— Esmé Raji Codell

#inspirational

Tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inspirational

The greatest threat to our Constitution is our own ignorance of it. ↗

— Jacob F. Roecker

#inspirational #political #inspirational

Don't do what you love, love what you do well. ↗

— Christopher Hart

#inspirational