#nat

When a person boldly declares, 'You can't,' he might as well add on, 'can you?', knowing that this spoken roadblock only serves to fuel a challenge in naturally stubborn souls. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dare #impossibility #richelle #richelle-goodrich #roadblock

You can only fight what you are for so long. Eventually the hand that nature has dealt you will make you become what you were meant to be. You have no control over it. ↗

— Lindsay J. Pryor

#paranormal #paranormal-romance #pnr #urban-fantasy #vampire

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these. ↗

— Ashly Lorenzana

#depression #despair #hopelessness #leaves #metaphor

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state. ↗

— Ramana Maharshi

#mind #nature

She looked up at him. "Carry me. I like it when you carry me." Her body trembled beneath him. "Ask me." "Please." The words came out without hesitation or thought. "Would you carry me?" "Anything you ask for, angel." ↗

— Joey W. Hill

#tyler #nature

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! ↗

— William Golding

#nature

Our habits are our friends. Even our bad habits." -- Diary of a Country Priest ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#spirituality #nature

Our job as writers is to be as curious as a child, to see things for the first time, and to never assume. We must always be willing to surrender our idea of the story to allow the larger story to emerge. We are seeking to understand the nature of things, the underlying forces at work. ↗

— Alan Watt

#nature

I'm afraid that in nine cases out of ten Nature pulls one way and human nature another. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#nature #nature

For it has come about, by the wise economy of nature, that our modern spirit can almost dispense with language; the commonest expressions do, since no expressions do; hence the most ordinary conversation is often the most poetic, and the most poetic is precisely that which cannot be written down. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#nature