#less

The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use. ↗

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

#imagination

I’m speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There’s powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying. ↗

— Scott Lynch

#kung-fu #life-lessons #imagination

Tell you what." I closed the blade with a satisfying snick. "Remember that time you tried to kill me because I wouldn't open a gate to hell?" "The memory's a bit fuzzy..." I opened the knife again. "Yes, now that you mention it, I do recall something like that happening, although my motivation was certainly never to kill you. Can't you view it as me inspiring you to figure out how to use the Paths? I didn't actually want you to die. ↗

— Kiersten White

#evie #holding-hands-with-boys #jack #inspirational

Life is just mirrors and misunderstandings. ↗

— Caedem Marquez

#life #life-lessons #inspirational

Nah," I said. "But if it does, just tell him I said to get back on the bike." "What?" "He'll understand. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#life #life-lessons #try-again #inspirational

Do not constantly spend your time complaining about a problem you may be having or may be up against, focus your time toward correcting the problem. Always remember, Time is value! ↗

— Victoria Addino

#bad-habits #break-through #inspirational #lessons-learned #time-passing

Two lost things that had survived the seas and arrived on a coastline. What did they do? They implanted themselves in the sand and grew into trees and lined the beaches. Sometimes a lot can come of being all washed up. You can really grow. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#hope #inspirational #lesson #life #love

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#life-lessons #mr-moscowitz #suffering #inspirational

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days. ↗

— Annie Dillard

#life-lessons #spirituality #wisdom #inspirational

To have reservations is to show true leadership. To have certainty without question, to lead people to battle with no qualms, or to prosecute without hesitation are qualities of a tyrant. ↗

— Laura Kreitzer

#battle #fantasy #fiction #kreitzer #leadership