#ration

Desire is like fog on a bathroom mirror -- its presence incites you to wipe the mirror, and see yourself clearly again. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#fog #mirror #perception #inspirational

Every path hath a puddle. ↗

— George Herbert

#inspirational

I'll tell you a secret. Old storytellers never die. They disappear into their own story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#stories #story #storyteller #storytelling #tale

He who is not contended with what he has, would not be contended with what he would like to have. ↗

— Socrates

#inspirational

I sometimes think we expect too much of Christmas Day. We try to crowd into it the long arrears of kindliness and humanity of the whole year. As for me, I like to take my Christmas a little at a time, all through the year. And thus I drift along into the holidays - let them overtake me unexpectedly - waking up some find morning and suddenly saying to myself: 'Why, this is Christmas Day! ↗

— Ray Stannard Baker

#inspirational #inspirational

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#truths #humor

He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move. ↗

— Yana Toboso

#mystery #suspense #inspirational

For whatever we lose (a you or a me) It's always ourselves we find in the sea. ↗

— E.E. Cummings

#inspirational #love #ocean #quote #sea

It's just one day, one twenty-four-hour period to get yourself through. - Adam ↗

— Gayle Forman

#inspirational-life #inspirational

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ... ↗

— John Geddes

#fault-lines #heals #heart #heartbreak #inspiration