#ring

Today and onwards, I stand proud, for the bridges I've climbed, for the battles I've won, and for the examples I've set, but most importantly, for the person I have become. I like who I am now, finally, at peace with me... ↗

— Heather James

#inspiring #inspiring-mums #mindset #motivating #self-care

Despite the forecast, live like it's spring. ↗

— Lilly Pulitzer

#life-and-living #spring #inspirational

Our higher needs include making full use of our gifts, finding and fulfilling our calling, being loved and cherished just for ourselves, and being in relationships that honor all of these. Such needs are fulfilled in an atmosphere of the five A’s by which love is shown: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. ↗

— David Richo

#inspirational #nonfiction #inspirational

A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. "I will take the Ring," he said, "though I do not know the way. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire. ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

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

Love is something worth suffering for... ↗

— Scott Hahn

#encouragement #inspirational #suffering #inspirational

I can't read your lips unless they touch mine. ↗