#so

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy. ↗

— Denis Waitley

#concentrate #energy #energy source #focus #get

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#friendship #inspirational #friendship

And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#inspirational #life-lessons #problems #trials #inspirational

It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #lecture #nonfiction #philosophy #self-reliance

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#inspiration #liberty #political-philosophy #strength #tyranny

To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution. ↗

— Steven Pressfield

#creativity #inspiration #sociology #writing #art

I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers. ↗

— Michael Palin

#comes #i #i think #modern #now

The best things in life make you sweaty. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#life #love #meaning-of-life #philosophical #puberty

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#reason #sorrow #trial #inspirational

I've never been a fan of presidents who place blame on their predecessors or who accept credit for events that couldn't have been engineered so soon in their tenure. ↗

— Kathleen Parker

#been #blame #credit #engineered #events