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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#inspirational #on-writing #reading #inspirational

When a stargirl cries, she sheds not tears but light. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

#inspirational #life #stargirl #tears #inspirational

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ↗

— Eudora Welty

#creativity #inspiration #literature #reading #storytelling

If any accolades come in the writing of this story, all praise will be His, all Glory will rightly go to Him. If He will allow me to share some part in this, I am truly humbled. ↗

— Lynn Dove

#christian #inspiration #life #teen #inspirational

Every villain is a hero in his own mind. ↗

— Tom Hiddleston

#awesome #different #hero #hiddleston #inspiring

Give me strength, not to be better than my enemies, but to defeat my greatest enemy, the doubts within myself. Give me strength for a straight back and clear eyes, so when life fades, as the setting sun, my spirit may come to you without shame. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#inspirational #life #strength #inspirational

It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#broken-heart #compassion #inspirational #kindness #love

Waiting for you is like waiting for rain in this drought. Useless and disappointing." ~ Sam (Hilary Duff), A Cinderella Story ↗

— Hilary Duff

#hurt #inspirational #love #rain #waiting

Thinking is contagious … so choose whom you surround yourself with carefully! Or at least take precautions so as not to infect yourself with other people’s thinking! ↗

— Jennifer O'Neill

#motivational-inspirational #positive-mindset #positive-thoughts #postive-thinking #inspirational

Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inspirational #life #tragic #inspirational