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Whenever your foundation is laid in God, there will be nothing that can shake it, no matter how strong the storm is. ↗

— Angelo M. Swinson

#inspirational-quotes #marriage-advice #relationships #self-help #inspirational

little birdy fly's away from the nest on its own and comes back with one twig and you invite it back in, it will bring more! ↗

— Edna Stewart

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He sighed. 'Your life is your own,Miss Kingston. We have only one. Don't allow anyone else to dictate to you what you should do with yours.' She blinked and frowned as if she didn't understand what he meant. 'It's yours,' he advised softly. 'Don't waste it on petty conventions or conformity. Swim against the tide if you want to. ↗

— Val Wood

#life #inspirational

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you do not try. ↗

— Brigitte Trinkle

#motivational #self-help #inspirational

You know what's given me the greatest pleasure in my life? It's been our bungalow, the normalcy of it, the ordinariness of my waking, Almaz rattling in the kitchen, my work, my classes, my rounds with the senior students. Seeing you and Shiva at dinner, then going to sleep with my wife...I want my days to be that way. ↗

— Abraham Verghese

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Surely a man must be in a parlours state to excite pity, extremely weak to inspire sympathy, or very evil-looking to make a soul tremble in a den like this, where pain must hold its tongue, poverty remain cheerful, and despair retain its self respect. ↗

— Honoré de Balzac

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...I won't ever again allow doubt to come in and dissolve my ability to live life as fully as I can. ↗

— Ann Linnea

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Every new day is an opportunity given to you on a platter of gold.Chibuoka www.smashwords.com/books/view/161524 ↗

— Chibuoka Chukwudebelu Okoye

#self-development #self-inspiration #self-motivation #inspirational

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination

Suddenly, over the slope, as if tethered to a cord of air drawing quickly upward, came a Northern Harrier, motionless but for its rising. So still was the bird - wings, tail, head - it might have been a museum specimen. Then, as if atop the wind, it slid down the ridge, tilted a few times, veered, tacked up the hill, its wings hardly shifting. I though, if I could be that hawk for one hour I'd never again be just a man. ↗

— William Least Heat Moon

#nature #inspirational