#ness

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#loneliness #inspirational

I want to learn your trickery and feel what it’s like to have me wrapped around your finger. I want to lie to everyone because it gets me where I want faster. I want to be like you, because you are blind; and now that I finally see, I don’t want to. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. ↗

— Vance Havner

#inspirational #renewal #suffering #inspirational

The summit of happiness is reached when a person is ready to be what he is. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus

#inspirational #inspirational

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more. ↗

— Pico Iyer

#love #self-awareness #travel #inspirational

Everyone knew that if you divided reality by expectation, you got a happiness quotient. But when you invert the equation - expectation divided by reality - you didn't get the opposite of happiness. What you got, Lewis realized, was hope. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#happiness #inspirational #quotient #reality #inspirational

We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places. ↗

— Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

#growth #hurts #inspirational #wounded #inspirational

I am happy. I have something to accomplish, create, and achieve. I am happy. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#achieve #create #goals #happiness #happy

Many of us seem to live our lives looking for happiness. That is not always a bad thing, but it can be if we continually believe that happiness is someplace else and not in the present. ↗

— Barbara Barrington Jones

#inspirational #inspirational

That is what you meant to me: a light that shone through the darkness.” (Your smile, p. 56) ↗

— Chimnese Davids

#inspirational #light #poetry #inspirational