#rational

Don't get me wrong. A good marriage, adequate financial resources, even a clean home and well-behaved children do bring some measure of happiness. However, temporal blessings, as wonderful as they may be, are only a taste of the real thing. They cannot sustain inner happiness any more than eating a scrumptious meal keeps tomorrow's hunger at bay. ↗

— Leslie Vernick

#inspirational #inspirational

It is only people who are lacking, or bad, or inferior, who have to be good at things. You have always been full and perfect, so you had nothing to make up for. ↗

— T.H. White

#humility #inspirational #love #self-deprecating #wooing

choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work a day in your life ↗

— Confucius

#life #work #inspirational

The most important thing is to hold on, hold out, for your creative life, for your solitude, for your time to be and do, for your very life. ↗

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

#creative #inspirational #solitude #inspirational

Sometimes you can do things for others that you can't do for yourself. ↗

— A.M. Homes

#inspirational

In the end, you aren't judged by the years in your life but the life in your years. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inspirational

Shogo. I know I'm repeating myself, but I have to say it. If I were Keiko, this is what I'd say. Please Live. Talk, think, act. And sometimes listen to music... Look at paintings at times to be moved. Laugh a lot, and at times, cry. And if you find a wonderful girl, then you go for her and love her. ↗

— Koushun Takami

#love #inspirational

There are moments in my life when I feel like I’m exactly where I’m supposed to be, doing exactly what I’m supposed to do. I pay attention to them. They’re my cosmic landmarks, letting me know I’m on the right path. Now that I’m older and can look back and see where I missed a turn here and there, and know the price I paid for those oversights, I try to look sharper at the present. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#fiction #inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others ↗

— Millie Huang

#inspirational

A woman of strength knows to take the time to prepare herself...she goes into seclusion for a season if necessary, to gather the strength of God's power to perform what he requires. ↗

— Neva Coyle

#inspirational