#rational

One of the most beneficial and valuable gifts we can give to ourselves in this life: is allowing ourselves to be surprised! It is okay if life surprises you. Its a good thing! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #letting-go #life-and-living #surprised-by-life #surprises

By believing in our nobler nature, women have the amazing power to inspire us to live up to it. This is one reason why men tend to fear commitment. ↗

— Neil Strauss

#gender-stereotypes #love #men-and-women #power #relationships

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it. ↗

— Joyce Meyer

#journey #inspirational

whenever they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you ↗

— Richard Adams

#inspirational

Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too. ↗

— Todd Burpo

#religious #inspirational

But, of course, putting yourself out there takes vulnerability. Vulnerability is hard, and we, as a rule, tend to go for what’s easy; by that logic, closing ourselves off is the easiest thing in the world. We quote the words of others to do our talking for us, send each other links to articles and stories in lieu of actual conversation, post pretty pictures to adequately convey our current state of mind, all to avoid having to proffer a single identifiable human emotion. We keep in touch with relatives by emailing them mawkishly inspirational chain letters once in a while. We regurgitate memes to approximate the feeling of being in the loop. ↗

— Phil Roland

#inspirational

I still believe that all you need is love. ↗

— John Lennon

#inspirational

You are what you allow the Lord to make you. ↗

— Chris Heimerdinger

#inspirational

I believe in such cartography – to be marked by nature, not just label ourselves on a map like the names of rich men and women on buildings. We are communal histories, communal books. ... All I desired was to walk upon such an earth that had no maps. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#inspirational #maps #inspirational

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#love #inspirational