#pin

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

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

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination. ↗

— Janet Frame

#border #cathedrals #expedition #factories #going

Erase from your vocabulary the word “someday.” Do not save things for “special occasions.” Take into account the fact that every day is special. Every day is a gift that we must appreciate and be thankful for. Wear your attractive clothes, wear your nice perfume, use your fine silverware and dishes, and drink from your expensive crystal glasses … just because. Live every day to the fullest and savor every minute of it. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#enjoyment #fulfillment #happiness #inspirational #inspirational

But they need to worry and betray time with urgencies false and otherwise, purely anxious and whiny, their souls really won't be at peace unless they can latch to an established and proven worry and having once found it they assume facial expressions to fit and go with it, which is, you see, unhappiness, and all the time it all flies by them and they know it and that too worries them no end. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#unhappiness #inspirational

It's what's in *yourself* that makes you happy or unhappy. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational #miss-marple #inspirational

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. ↗

— Jesse Jackson

#down #helping #him #look #never

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe. ↗

— Andre Agassi

#inspirational #inspirational

The greenest of pastures are right here on earth. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#inspiration #peace #inspirational

Whatever it takes to finish things, finish. You will learn more from a glorious failure than you ever will from something you never finished. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#finishing #happiness #inspirational #success #inspirational