#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

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#history #inspirational #learn #live #mistakes

... it’s a blessed thing to love and feel loved in return. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#falling-in-love #inspirational #inspirational-love #inspirational-romance #love

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #success #victim-mentality #victory

They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up. ↗

— Daniel Wallace

#cheesy #inspirational #love #love-at-first-sight #love-story

I'd love to be a voice in 'Toy Story 4.' ↗

— Jackie Weaver

#love #story #toy #voice

He doesn't teach you what to think, he teaches you how to think ↗

— Lurlene McDaniel

#inspirational #love-story #inspirational