#pre

A very small percentage of the people in this world will actually experience and live today. So many people will be stuck on another day, another time that traumatized them and caused them to spiritually stutter so they miss out on this day. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #living-now #motivational #today

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. ↗

— Christina Westover

#books #censorship #christina-westover #freedom-of-the-press #passion

I get what it's like to want something, but to try and force yourself to really believe that you don't. ↗

— Cora Carmack

#desires #losing-it #repression #unrequited-love #love

Love is the most precious gift you could ever possibly hope to steal. Some women foolishly do not leave their rib cages locked at night.
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— Jarod Kintz

#foolish #hope #lock #love #night

The future belongs to the one most fully alive in the present. ↗

— Paul Palnik

#god #presence #inspirational

Youths are the life blood of any nation. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#british-high-commision #democracy #ecowas #entrepreneurship #leadership

I am determined that only the deepest love will induce me into matrimony. So... I shall end an old maid, and teach your ten children to embroider cushions and play their instruments very ill. ↗

— Jane Austen

#pride-and-prejudice #love

Church was doing what he often did when dropped - lying on his back with all four legs in the air, pretending to be dead in order to induce guilt in his owners. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cat #church #city-of-lost-souls #humor #pretence

A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#humor #melancholy #wit #humor

But...what if I mistime it?" Gilan smiled widely. "Well, in that case, I'll probably lop your head off your shoulders." Horace and Gilan ↗

— John Flanagan

#horace #humor #ranger-s-apprentice #sword-fighting #humor