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There are, it seems, two muses: the Muse of Inspiration, who gives us inarticulate visions and desires, and the Muse of Realization, who returns again and again to say "It is yet more difficult than you thought." This is the muse of form. It may be then that form serves us best when it works as an obstruction, to baffle us and deflect our intended course. It may be that when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#inspirational

a wind has blown the rain away & the sky away & all the leaves away, & the trees stand. i think i, too, have known autumn too long. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#inspirational

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#hard-work #inspirational #time #inspirational

Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always ↗

— Dante Alighieri

#inspirational #memory #inspirational

...Next time you're faced with a choice, do the right thing. It hurts everyone less in the long run. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#inspirational #right-and-wrong #inspirational

Everything happens for a reason and, something better will come along for me! ↗

— Selena Gomez

#love #inspirational

Each suburban wife struggles with it alone. As she made the beds, shopped for groceries, matched slipcover material, ate peanut butter sandwiches with her children, chauffeured Cub Scouts and Brownies, lay beside her husband at night- she was afraid to ask even of herself the silent question-- 'Is this all? ↗

— Betty Friedan

#feminism #housekeeping #inspirational #marriage #parenting

The doubters said, "Man can not fly," The doers said, "Maybe, but we'll try," And finally soared In the morning glow While non-believers Watched from below. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#doubters #inspirational #inspirational

If you're not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you're not ready for that relationship. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#life #love #relationship #self-knowledge #truth

His nose was his most distinctive feature: curved like a scimitar at the top but bent flat at the tip, and with the bone of the bridge cut like a diamond--in short, a nose out of a folktale, the sort of sizable, convoluted, intricately turned nose that, for many centuries, confronted though they have been by every imaginable hardship, the Jews have never stopped making. ↗

— Philip Roth

#imagination