#lt

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#dare #difficult #things

She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced. ↗

— Jane Austen

#jane-austen #letters #love-and-friendship #loyalty #pen-pals

Gordon Edgley's sudden death came as a shock to everyone - not least himself. One moment he was in his study, seven words into the twenty-fifth sentence of the final chapter of his new book, And the Darkness Rained upon Them, and the next he was dead. A tragic loss, his mind echoed numbly as he slipped away. ↗

— Derek Landy

#first-paragraph #humor #young-adult #death

I realized then that even though I was a tiny speck in an infinite cosmos, a blip on the timeline of eternity, I was not without purpose. ↗

— R.J. Anderson

#inspirational #purpose #r-j-anderson #ultraviolet #inspirational

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#difficulties #eyes #god #our #pray

It is difficult to discriminate the voice of truth from amid the clamor raised by heated partisans. ↗

— Friedrich Schiller

#clamor #difficult #discriminate #heated #partisans

When you've experienced the real Marilyn, it's difficult to watch a movie about her.' I didn't want to have the memories of my experience tarnished in any way. ↗

— Lawrence Schiller

#any #difficult #experience #experienced #her

Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#jodi-picoult #lone-wolf #wise #inspirational

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#pillow #support #tough #tough-times #inspirational

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#born #choice #contribute #culture #feel