#rin

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #pippin #tolkien

When we feel unsafe with someone and still stay with him, we damage our ability to discern trustworthiness in those we will meet in the future. ↗

— David Richo

#david-richo #inspiration #nonfiction #shambhala #inspirational

People felt themselves watching him even before they knew that there was anything different about him. His eyes made a person think that he heard things that no one else had ever heard, that he knew things no one had ever guessed before. He did not seem quite human. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#different #eyes #face #human #influence

The opposite of interpersonal trust is not mistrust. It is despair. This is because we have given up on believing that trustworthiness and fulfillment are possible from others. We have lost our hope in our fellow humans. ↗

— David Richo

#david-richo #inspiration #inspirational #shambhala #inspirational

I want to be challenged I want to work and I want to feel that I am not being held back that there is something in front of me something more inspiring than... just eating breakfast you know ↗

— Sofia Vassilieva

#challenges #desire #feel #inspiration #inspired

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it. ↗

— Arthur Golden

#any #enduring #frankly #i #longer

Semper fuckin' fi ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#marine #navy #semper-fi #uniform #inspirational

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#death #moving #wandering #death

...and there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again and become invisible in the sunny spaces. And even if he forever flies within the gorge, that gorge is in the mountains; so that even in his lowest swoop the mountain eagle is still higher than the other birds upon the plain, even though they soar. ↗

— Herman Melville

#inspirational #soaring #inspirational

God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement." -Hungry for God ↗

— Margaret Feinberg

#inspiring #inspirational