#son

Pride is always a better lever against the nobility than reason. ↗

— Patrick Rothfuss

#pride #reason #nobility

Old stories have a habit of being told and retold and changed. Each subsequent storyteller puts his or her mark upon it. Whatever truth the story once had is buried in bias and embellishment. The reasons do not matter as much as the story itself. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#habits #reasons #stories #the-night-circus #truth

Don't get politics mixed up in this. It's all about money and it makes no difference if the Social Democrats or the moderates appoint the ministers ↗

— Stieg Larsson

#stieg-larsson #the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo #money

Although personal calling I sense, Who am I? even if I am, I don't know. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#circling #dejan-stojanovic #literature #literature-quotes #personal-calling

The problem with thinking that you are the absolute best, is that it leaves no room for you to become any better and while you live life thinking that you're the best, truth is a lot of people around you are already better and becoming even more better. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#humility #inspirational-life #inspirational-living #inspirational-quotes #personal-improvement

My mother can't have been magic, or she wouldn't have died", said Riddle ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#destiny #hope #mother-s-love-for-son #love

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem. ↗

— Maurice Young

#inspiration #inspirational #mastery #mastery-of-skills #motivational

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#life-lessons #philosophy-of-life #inspirational

I teach the world how to treat me by the way I treat myself, and the way I present myself. ↗

— Kristine Gasbarre

#life-lessons #women #inspirational

Look beyond yourself. ↗

— Michael J. Jackson

#life-lesson #inspirational