#rational

Defeat is for the valiant. Only they will know the honor of losing and the joy of winning. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

Your past doesn't dictate what your future will be. ↗

— Jillian Bullock

#inspirational #memoir #inspirational

The simplest things in life are the most extraordinary. Let them reveal themselves. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

The greatest gift God gave us is the power to make decisions. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

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In the end, what you do isn't going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #interesting #inspirational

If you believe in your story, someone else will! ↗

— Kristy Brown

#inspirational

Many great things have been accomplished by the careful combination of keen minds and ardent spirits. ↗

— G.D. Falksen

#sicence-fiction #steampunk #inspirational

College had once been my greatest aspiration; it stood for everything my mother did not—intellectualism, feminism, freedom. But being kidnapped had given me plenty of time to think, and somewhere between all that fear and dread, I'd realized that was the wrong reason to go to college. That the potential for those things had been inside of me all along, only I'd never realized because I hadn't believed myself strong enough to break free without an intermediary. ↗

— Nenia Campbell

#feminism #freedom #inspirational #philosophy #freedom

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come. ↗

— Carolyn Coman

#inspirational

There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#inspirational