#tin

❝ SOME PEOPLE NEVER CONSIDER THE RAMIFICATIONS OF A LIE. AFTER A WHILE, A LIE CAN BECOME WHAT YOU BELIEVE AS IF IT WAS NEVER A LIE. YOU’RE FLOATING IN BETWEEN REALITY AND FICTION. THE PROBLEM IS IF YOU KEEP THAT LIE TO YOURSELF, EVENTUALLY IT WILL EAT AT YOU. ↗

— Shey Stahl

#shey-stahl #waiting-for-you #inspirational

Don't let fear of failure prevent you from making effective choices and firm decisions. ↗

— Roopleen

#motivating #inspirational

Perhaps you forgave him too much, but who among us would not wish to be so generously loved and generously forgiven? ↗

— Sherry Thomas

#sherry-thomas #tempting-the-bride #forgiveness

Often you cannot wait for inspiration—it needs to be sought out. ↗

— Dean F. Wilson

#writing #inspirational

You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one. ↗

— D.E.M. Emrys

#inspirational #writing #inspirational

I want hard stories, I demand them from myself. Hard stories are worth the difficulty. It seems to me the only way I have forgiven anything, understood anything, is through that process of opening up to my own terror and pain and reexamining it, re-creating it in the story, and making it something different, making it meaningful - even if the meaning is only in the act of the telling. ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#understanding #writing #forgiveness

At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have happened but didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#destiny #lives #moment #change

To my abusers: I forgive you. ↗

— Pattie Mallette

#justin-bieber #loving #pain #pattie-malette #suffering

The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech] ↗

— Lois Lowry

#on-writing #freedom

Alignment begins with a constituency of one. These are the individuals whose substance is real, pure and nonnegotiable. They share their vulnerabilities and fears in complement to their strengths. They are comfortable weaving all parts of their lives together in an integrated way. Our level of effectiveness, contribution and integrity of work and life are in direct correlation with our level of integration, self-actualization and total alignment fo body, mind and spirit. ↗

— Kristin S. Kaufman

#inspirational #is-this-seat-taken #kristin-kaufman #change