#r

In his earliest youth, he had drawn inspiration from really bad authors, as you may have seen from his style; as he grew older, he lost his taste for them, but the excellent authors just didn’t fill him with the same enthusiasm ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#writing #inspirational

I believe [...] that while all human life is sacred there’s nothing wrong with the death penalty if you can trust the legal system implicitly, and that no one but a moron would ever trust the legal system. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#death-penalty #justice #justice-system #legal-system #reasonable-doubt

History, of course, is never real. People either glorify it or horrify it. Or at the very least color it. ↗

— Paula Wall

#humor

The sound of silence is deafening ↗

— Charlotte Aves

#inspirational

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#children-s-reminiscences #inspirational #inspirational

Do all you can...to help whoever you can...whenever you can! ↗

— Timothy Pina

#inspirational

Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision. ↗

— Rich DiSilvio

#philosophy #inspirational

A long time ago people believed that the world is flat and the moon is made of green cheese. Some still do, to this day. The man on the moon is looking down and laughing. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#beliefs #believe #cheese #flat #flat-earth

Bagaimana Ibu bahagia dengan seorang putri yang pada akhirnya akan meninggalkan Ibu untuk menyatu dengan keluarga suaminya? --Meskipun seorang putra akan tinggal bersamaku sampai aku meninggal dunia, aku takkan pernah dapat mengatakan kepadanya segala sesuatu yang kukatakan padamu. Aku takkan pernah bisa mengungkapkan kerapuhanku kepada seorang putra. ↗

— Kim Dong Hwa

#inspirational

Get going Simon. Just don't be distracted by the what-ifs, should-ifs, and if-onlys. The one thing you choose for yourself, that is the truth of your universe. ↗

— Kamina

#inspiration #kamina #inspirational