#tale

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

To want a gift and not receive it,that is a life of torture. To have a gift and lose it--that is eternal hell. ↗

— j. scott featherstone

#talents #inspirational

I fear nothing when I am doing right,' said Jack. 'Then,' said the lady in the red cap, 'you are one of those who slay giants. ↗

— Andrew Lang

#fear #giants #inspirational #jack #right

For the others, it was still just a tale, like all the tales we told, night by night, tales comical and strange, tales heroic and awe-inspiring, the tales that formed the fabric of our spirits. ↗

— Juliet Marillier

#spirit #tale #inspirational

The seventh gift is Talent. May you discover your own special abilities and contribute them toward a better world. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#blessing #character-building #inspiration #self-worth #talent

Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to admit they believe but which nevertheless survive in the memory of generations as the only chronicle of the past. It is as if the people who inhabit the streets, inspired by some mysterious wisdom, relalise that the true history of Calcutta has always been written in the invisible tales of its spirits and unspoken curses. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#calcutta #chronicle-of-the-past #darkness #generations #ghosts

Magic is a dangerous thing, child. It isn’t something to use lightly. ↗

— Kevis Hendrickson

#inspirational #the-tale-of-liril #wisdom #inspirational

Thus the great wind, the afflatus, gave breath and turbulence to all life; and inspiration clung to the minds and hearts of men. ↗

— Richard Beckham II

#life #the-tale-of-mu #inspirational

Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments. ↗

— M.A.Kelty

#inspirational #kindness #talents #inspirational

Talent is a wonderful thing, but it won't carry a quitter. ↗

— Stephen King

#motivation #talent #inspirational