#ok

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#life-lessons #self-help #self-improvement #thought-provoking #thoughtful

Free spirits have to soar." "True Religion ↗

— Ziggy Marley

#books #inspirational #ziggy-marley #inspirational

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others. ↗

— Elizabeth McCracken

#marriage

Caregiving offers many fringe benefits, including the sheer sensory delight of nourishing and grooming, sharing, and playing. But caregiving does buttonhole you; you're stitched in one place. . . . Paul wasn't on a learning curve but seemed trapped in a circle. He's swoop forward only to loop back again and fall to earth. ↗

— Diane Ackerman

#love

I love words.  I crave descriptions that overwhelm my imagination with vivid detail.  I dwell on phrases that make my heart thrum.  I cherish expressions that pierce my emotions and force the tears to spill over.   In essence, I long for a writer's soul sealed in ink on the page. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#inspirational-quotes #reading #reading-books #richelle #richelle-goodrich

Do the new, be the change. ↗

— Neeraj Vohara

#hope #inspirational #life #motivational #new

Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

#inspirational-life #life #philosophical #thought-provoking #inspirational

Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land. ↗

— Timothy Findley

#thought-provoking #inspirational

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational