#nat

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#observation #resignation #wisdom #inspirational

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us. ↗

— Anita Stansfield

#self-determination #inspirational

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back. ↗

— Criss Jami

#confidence #confident #determination #dragon #dragons

What did you put in the fire?" Kaladin said. "To make that special smoke?" "Nothing. It was just and ordinary fire." "But, I saw-" "What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind." "What does the story mean, then?" "It means what you want it to mean," Hoid said. "The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think , but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#imagination

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help. ↗

— Philippa Gregory

#fearless #inspirational #women #imagination

We shall never achieve harmony with the land, anymore than we shall achieve absolute justice or liberty for people. In these higher aspirations the important thing is not to achieve but to strive. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#nature #science #inspirational

Thus is the nature of love: that you must use it! A love unused is not love! If it is something that sits on the shelf that you don't know what to do with, it is not true to the nature of love! Use love! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-love #inspirational-love-quotes #inspirational-quotes #love #loving

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too. ↗

— Aberjhani

#healing #human-nature #inspiration #power #restoration

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God. ↗

— Anne Frank

#heavens #inspirational #nature #spiritual #wisdom

Listen to the trees as they sway in the wind. Their leaves are telling secrets. Their bark sings songs of olden days as it grows around the trunks. And their roots give names to all things. Their language has been lost. But not the gestures. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#bark #gestures #hear #hearing #listen