#na

To become a real boy, you must prove yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish. ↗

— Pinocchio

#inspirational

Falling in love often happens at the wrong time, in the wrong place, with the wrong person. ↗

— J.C. Reed

#love #romance #inspirational

Landon: [voiceover] Jamie saved my life. She taught me everything. About life, hope and the long journey ahead. I'll always miss her. But our love is like the wind. I can't see it, but I can feel it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#inspirational

You must draw from that strength. You must increase it. And you must hold on to it because sometimes that small glimmer of inner strength is all that we have to help us press forward through the darkness. ↗

— Morgan Rhodes

#life #strength #inspirational

But when a cut is deep, it’s still just flesh beneath. ↗

— Veronica Rossi

#inspirational #life #pain #inspirational

Some people simply REFUSE to be happy. If they were stuck in a tunnel you can show them the way out and give them a light, but they will just sit there complaining about how they got there. They are more willing to fight to STAY there instead of fighting to coming out. Okay it happened. Now what? Stop focusing so hard on how you got there, focus on how you're going to get out! Keep it moving! ↗

— Yvonne Pierre

#optimistic #overcoming #uplifting #inspirational

Most of us are not so strong. What is humor compared to a woman's love? What is duty against the feel of a newborn son in your arms? Or the memory of a brother's smile? Wind and words. We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory and our great tragedy. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational #love #humor

Those aren't from my mother's garden, are they? She'll throttle you." "No," he said, making a grand show of looking insulted. "I would never." "Sorry," she said with a cringe. "They're from your neighbor's garden, actually. ↗

— Olivia Parker

#inspirational #humor

We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#inspirational

Bill Gates (and his successor at Microsoft, Ray Ozzie) are famous for taking annual reading vacations. During the year they deliberately cultivate a stack of reading material—much of it unrelated to their day-to-day focus at Microsoft—and then they take off for a week or two and do a deep dive into the words they’ve stockpiled. By compressing their intake into a matter of days, they give new ideas additional opportunities to network among themselves, for the simple reason that it’s easier to remember something that you read yesterday than it is to remember something you read six months ago. ↗

— Steven Johnson

#ideas #innocencevation #inspiration #reading #self-improvement