#tory

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat. ↗

— Joel Osteen

#inspiration #victory #inspirational

It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming up of themselves like grass. Yet regardless of where they come from, I cannot remember a time when I was not in love with them -- with the books themselves, cover and binding and the paper they were printed on, with their smell and their weight and with their possession in my arms, captured and carried off to myself. Still illiterate, I was ready for them, committed to all the reading I could give them ... ↗

— Eudora Welty

#creativity #inspiration #literature #reading #storytelling

So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#grief-inspirational #heartbreak #life #life-lessons #love

Great victory requires great risk. -Hera ↗

— Rick Riordan

#victory #inspirational

If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other. ↗

— Robert Penn Warren

#history #original-sin #forgiveness

He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself ↗

— Lois Lowry

#inspirational #loved-this-part-in-the-story #the-giver #inspirational

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game! ↗

— Babe Ruth

#baseball #cinderella-story #inspiration #motivation #quote

You are my counterfeit mystery. My artificial company. My forged reality. My imaginary friend I can’t eradicate. ↗

— Coco J. Ginger

#blind #breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do. ↗

— Dan Harmon

#human #humanity #inspiration #natural #naturally

Everything which made Abraham Lincoln the loved and honored man he was, it is in the power of the humblest American boy to imitate. ↗

— New York Times April

#history #inspirational #lincoln #motivational #inspirational