#rin

Den som ikke kan skille seg av med sine skatter når han må, han er i lenker. ↗

— Aragorn

#lord-of-the-rings #inspirational

The dirty secret she’d learned about grief was that nobody wanted to hear about your loss a week after the funeral. People you’d once considered friends would turn their heads in church or cross to another side of a shopping mall to avoid the contamination of your suffering. “You might imagine I’m coping day by day,” she murmured. “But it’s more a case of hour by hour, and during my worst times, minute by minute. ↗

— Susan Dormady Eisenberg

#grief #grieving #suffring #imagination

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!" "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #religion #suffering #the-brothers-karamazov #theodicy

Your soul is a precious gift from an imaginative loving Source that endlessly breathes life. ↗

— Dashama Konah Gordon

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspiring #spirituality #yoga

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

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

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it. ↗

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

#frances-hodgson-burnett #inspirational #princess #inspirational

You've got this life and while you've got it, you'd better kiss like you only have one moment, try to hold someone's hand like you will never get another chance to, look into people's eyes like they're the last you'll ever see, watch someone sleeping like there's no time left, jump if you feel like jumping, run if you feel like running, play music in your head when there is none, and eat cake like it's the only one left in the world! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #inspiring #kissing

Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#reassurance #reassuring #respite #soothing #inspirational

Don't think about making life better for other people who don't even deserve you, rather, focus on making your life the best, for yourself and those who love you. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-quotes #inspiring #life #life-and-living #living-life