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There are those who seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge; that is Curiosity. There are those who seek knowledge to be known by others; that is Vanity. There are those who seek knowledge in order to serve; that is Love. ↗

— Bernard of Clairvaux

#knowledge-power #serve-the-people #inspirational

If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#inspirational #truth #writing #inspirational

Some of us are crèmes brûlées, unfortunately in the presence of those who would rather have corn dogs. We can try to degenerate into corn dogs to make them happy, or we can just accept the fact that we were made for Paris! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#can-t-make-everyone-happy #crème-brûlée #crèmes-brûlées #inspirational-quotes #life-and-living

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #inspirational #science #theology #thought-provoking

God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world as we would like it to have been, and we use our minds to come up with rationalizations for our ingratitude. We are a murmuring, discontented, unhappy, ungrateful people. And because we think we want salvation from our discontents... ↗

— Douglas Wilson

#spiritual #thankfulness #inspirational

Writing is.... being able to take something whole and fiercely alive that exists inside you in some unknowable combination of thought, feeling, physicality, and spirit, and to then store it like a genie in tense, tiny black symbols on a calm white page. If the wrong reader comes across the words, they will remain just words. But for the right readers, your vision blooms off the page and is absorbed into their minds like smoke, where it will re-form, whole and alive, fully adapted to its new environment. ↗

— Mary Gaitskill

#inspiration #readers #vision #writing #inspirational

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#expectations #life #other #people #you

Hope does not leave without being given permission. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational-life #percy-jackson #philosophy #the-last-olympian #inspirational

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#chorus #choruses #cooperation #free #free-speech

The journey to a thousand stars is not too far a journey in the quest to have true love abiding in a pure heart. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#journey-to-a-thousand-stars #love #pure-heart #true-love #inspirational