#or

Don't you know no one can escape the power of creatures reaching out with breath alone? ↗

— Marina Tsvetaeva

#poetry #power #russian-author #writing #inspirational

A writer's age at the time of a work's composition is never irrelevant. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#author #relevance #writer #age

In the years ahead of me, I learned that the world is actually filled with people ready to tell you how likely something is, and what it means to be realistic. But what I have also learned is that no one, no one truly knows what is possible until they go and do it. ↗

— Liz Murray

#forgiveness

No guts, no glory. - Bert ↗

— Cath Crowley

#guts #inspirational #inspirational

It was as if hope had appeared out of nowhere to settle beside her and it wasn't going anywhere, it wasn't going to desert her now. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#inspirational #inspirational

When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#pillow #support #tough #tough-times #inspirational

Read to escape reality . . . Write to embrace it. ↗

— Stephanie Connolly

#reading #words #writing #inspirational

Memory is like a curse. We fall into eternity, and memory is a weight that keeps pulling us to where we can never go back to. ↗

— José Luís Peixoto

#memory #inspirational

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #pippin #tolkien

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#born #choice #contribute #culture #feel