#lit

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. ↗

— T.H. White

#humility #inspirational #love #self-deprecating #wooing

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#creative #inspirational #solitude #inspirational

If women lose the right to say where and how they birth their children, then they will have lost something that's as dear to life as breathing. ↗

— Ami McKay

#homebirth #inspirational #life #midwifery #political

Our relation, all round, exists--it's a reality, and a very good one; we're mixed up, so to speak, and it's too late to change it. We must live IN it and with it ↗

— Henry James

#perspective #reality #change

Life is about means not ends. There is no utopia to be gained, there is no end-state that is static and eternal, once accomplished. This was one of the great lies of communism. Likewise, capitalism offers the great deception that thanks to its machinations everyone will be richer in the future, thus justifying gross inequality and humiliation today. ↗

— Carne Ross

#communism #politics #utopia #change

Telling the truth and making someone cry is better than telling a lie and making someone smile. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#reality #inspirational

What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#gossip #impact #influencing-skills #inspiring-quotes #making-an-impression

She never felt sorry for herself, and that was something I decided I admired most in people. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#inspirational #life #quality #inspirational

Luckily, however, life doesn't always follow tradition, but craves out a path of its own. ↗

— Kader Abdolah

#life #reality #inspirational

In 1925 Woolf began an affair with Sackville-West, who was married to Harold Nicolson, the diplomat and writer, and the development of their close relationship, which does not seem to have undermined either woman’s marriage, coincided with Woolf ’s most productive years as a writer. ↗

— Jane Goldman

#marriage