#na

When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#inspirational

I lean back on the pillows and look at the corners of the room. When I was a kid, I always wanted to live on the ceiling - it looked so clean and uncluttered, like the top of a cake. ↗

— Jenny Downham

#inspirational

You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya--life--to me. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#life

You have to go the way your blood beats. If you don't live the only life you have, you won't live some other life, you won't live any life at all. ↗

— James Baldwin

#inspirational

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#vietnam #war #life

I will stay in jail to the end of my days before I make a butchery of my conscience. ↗

— John Bunyan

#inspirational

Today , I saved Brody Carmicheal's life! ↗

— Chanda Hahn

#life

The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy. ↗

— Aristotle

#education

Peace is something like happiness; you cannot say "I will be happy when..." and you can't say "I will be peaceful when..." Your happiness shouldn't depend on the situation you're in nor on the circumstances that surround you. In the same breath, you cannot wait for everything around you to become peaceful in order for you to say "I am peaceful." In both happiness and peace, there is a heart of strength, determination and steadfastness; a heart that has the power to make things happen. You have to be at peace. You have to be happy. Now. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #peace #the-way-of-happiness #the-way-of-peace

I’m Hana,” Hana says. “And this is Lena.” She jabs me with an elbow. I know I must look like a fish, standing there with my mouth gaping open, but I’m too outraged to speak. He’s lying. I know he’s the one I saw yesterday, would bet my life on it. “Alex. Nice to meet you.” Alex keeps his eyes on me as he and Hana shake hands. Then he extends a hand to me. “Lena,” he says thoughtfully. “I’ve never heard that name before. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lena-holoway #life