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You must accept the reality of other people. You think that reality is up for negotiation, that we think it's whatever you say it is. You must accept that we are as real as you are; you must accept that you are not God. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#inspirational #reality #inspirational

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#greatness #humility #inadequacy #insecurity #wisdom-inspirational

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ↗

— Eudora Welty

#creativity #inspiration #literature #reading #storytelling

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself over and over again. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life-lesson #spirituality #inspirational

Be in this world as if you were a stranger or a wayfarer. ↗

— Prophet Muhammad

#command #directive #hadeeth #hadith #inspirational

Face reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it to be. ↗

— Jack Welch

#face reality #reality #wish #you

Re-examine all you have been told. Dismiss what insults your soul. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#inspirational #soul #spirituality #wisdom #inspirational

What is more precious: a thousand answers derived from one question? Or, one answer…from a thousand questions? ↗

— G.F. Smith

#inspiration #literary #metaphysics #paranormal #religion

I tell you this true story just to prove that I can. That my frailty has not yet reached a point at which I can no longer tell a true story. ↗

— Joan Didion

#inspirational #talent #truth #writing #inspirational

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#humanity #inspirational #philosophy #sprituality #inspirational