#rational

I've been in love before, it's like a narcotic. At first it brings the euphoria of complete surrender. The next day you want more. You're not addicted yet, but you like the sensation, and you think you can still control things.You think about the person you love for two minutes then forget them for three hours. But then you get used to that person, and you begin to be completely dependent on them. Now you think about him for three hours and forget him for two minutes. If he's not there, you feel like an addict who can't get a fix. And just as addicts steal and humiliate themselves to get what they need, you're willing to do anything for love."- By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#life #life-lessons #love #paulo-coelho #inspirational

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#happiness #human #human-nature #humanism #humanity

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#story-teller #storytelling #your-gift #inspirational

Be empty of worrying. Think of who created thought! Why do you stay in prison When the door is so wide open? ↗

— Rumi

#inspirational

It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #love #roses #time #inspirational

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate. ↗

— Taylor Swift

#humor #inspirational #people #song #song-writing

Those who do not weep, do not see. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #sorrow #inspirational

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #inspirational

My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#power-of-words #writing #inspirational

Do not allow yourselves to be made to feel inadequate or frustrated because you cannot do everything others seem to be accomplishing. Only you and your Father in Heaven know your needs, strengths, and desires. Around this knowledge your personal course must be charted and your chioces made. ↗

— Marvin. J. Ashton

#lds #inspirational