#lit

It is the possibility that keeps me going, and though you may call me a dreamer or a fool or any other thing, I believe that anything is possible. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#love #optimism #possibilities #inspirational

What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. ↗

— Confucius

#inspiration #validation #inspirational

The Democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspirational #politics #inspirational

If we all did the things we are capable of, we would astound ourselves. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

#edison #inspirational #possibilities #science #inspirational

I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes. After that I liked jazz music. Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way. I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened. ↗

— Donald Miller

#inspiration #music #spirituality #inspirational

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#independence #individuality #inspirational #self-assurance #self-awareness

A sacrifice to be real must cost, must hurt, and must empty ourselves. Give yourself fully to God. He will use you to accomplish great things on the condition that you believe much more in his love than in your weakness. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#inspirational-love #spirituality #inspirational

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ↗

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that--warm things, kind things, sweet things--help and comfort and laughter--and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #giver #inspirational #inspirational