#ra

And so many things get lost. Not just a set of keys or a photograph of your father with his first truck, but the door those keys once opened, the childhood house you long ago walked into, the father who used to carry you on his shoulders high above the crowds at the summer fair, his body now ashes and shards of bone. You hold these things in place on a page, you walk through that door, touch his face and smell the cigarette smoke on his breath and in his shirt, you make things breathe again in words. You feel the lightness of a ghostly touch across your skin. In that small house on the corner, the porch light suddenly comes on. ↗

— Lorna Crozier

#writing #inspirational

I left with my canvas bag in which a few fundamental things were packed and took off for the Pacific Ocean with the fifty dollars in my pocket. ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#inspirational

butuh sedikit waktu buat mengobati rasa kecewa terhadap diri sendiri. tapi butuh waktu lama untuk mengobati rasa kecewa orang lain terhadap kita. ↗

— Asep Ridwan

#inspirational

Dreamers are not content with being mediocre. ↗

— Rick Pitino

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Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. ↗

— John O'Donohue

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They say there's no such place... as Paradise. Even if you search to the ends of the Earth, there's nothing there. No matter how far you walk, it's always the same road. It just goes on and on. But, in spite of that... Why am I so driven to find it? A voice calls to me... It says, "Search for Paradise. ↗

— Kiba Wolf's Rain

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These reflections made me very sensible of the goodness of Providence to me, and very thankful for my present condition, with all its hardships and misfortunes ; and this part also I cannot but recommend to the reflection of those who are apt, in their misery, to say, Is any affliction like mine? Let them consider how much worse the cases of some people are, and their case might have been, if Providence had thought fit. ↗

— Daniel Defoe

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I'll not always be here on guard. The stars twinkle in the Milky Way and the wind sighs for songs across the empty fields of a planet a Galaxy away. You won't always be here. But before you go, whisper this to your sons and their sons - "The work was free. Keep it so. ↗

— L. Ron Hubbard

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Before and during the first phase of the war his administration repeatedly maligned the UN but now, that Iraq has turned into a quagmire, it is asking the UN for help. ↗

— Peter Schuyler

#asking #before #during #first #first phase

If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination. ↗

— Corey Aaron Burkes

#imagination #inspirational #imagination