#lit

What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need. ↗

— George Alexiou

#happiness #inspirational #self-help #spirituality #surrender

You may have tangible wealth untold; caskets of jewels and coffers of gold. Richer than I you can never be. I had a mother who read to me. ↗

— Strickland Gillian

#literacy #love #mother #quote #reading

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#conscious-awareness #spirituality #yoga #zen #inspirational

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#huxley #inspirational #reality #inspirational

It's amazing how close I have been, all this time, to my old life. And yet the distance that divides me from it is vast. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#life-and-living #life-lessons #literary-fiction #quotes #inspirational

Even if your body isn't healthy, your soul overcomes that, it doesn't even care, it worships anyway, it's joyful anyway. That's what God wants to give you in your life. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#flyleaf #health #inspirational #jesus #joy

It's just that it's impossible to be a broken or whole person. You can only be a person. You can only exist, you can only belong to yourself, and you can only be responsible for your own happiness or belonging or whatever. That broken-part-piece-whole thing is just a trick of the mortal mind. ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#life #personality #inspirational

Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done. One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#impossibility #inspirational #inspirational

A book had always been a door to another world... a world much more interesting and fantastical than reality. But she had finally discovered that life could be even more wonderful than fantasy. And that love could fill the real world with magic. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#inspirational #kleypas #life #love #reality

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself. ↗

— Benilde Little

#inspirational #orginality #self-awareness #warning #inspirational