#rational

I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps. ↗

— John Green

#inspirational #life-lessons #dreams

Sometimes we dream of things that we've always wanted--of things that we have been searching for our whole lives without knowing it...and other times we wake up and know what we have to do. I have to write...so I do. ↗

— Cassandra Giovanni

#writer #writing #writing-life #dreams

My pen.’ Funny, I wrote that without noticing. ‘The torch’, ‘the paper’, but ‘my pen’. That shows what writing means to me, I guess. My pen is a pipe from my heart to the paper. It’s about the most important thing I own. ↗

— John Marsden

#funny

Writing is a job, a talent, but it’s also the place to go in your head. It is the imaginary friend you drink your tea with in the afternoon. …how beautiful it would be to live so far away from my mistakes. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#beauty

My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years. ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#always #behind #dad #daughter #deserved

Belief creates the actual fact. ↗

— William James

#actual #belief #creates #fact

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#glow #me #money #more #than

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#consider #containing #doctrines #everything #genuine

I seek words of such surpassing beauty that they might melt the hardest heart of stone. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#beauty

There is a time and place for everything, you just have to wait for the right moment. Once it comes it will be the most beautiful and perfect thing possible! ↗

— Gloria Tesch

#inspirational #life #quotes #timeless #beauty