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There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with our first great sorrow. Before we know what it is to have loved and lost, to despaired and have recovered hope. ↗

— George Elliot

#inspirational #loss #mourning #recovery #inspirational

The previously unloved may find it hard to believe that they are now loved; that is such a miracle, they feel; such a miracle. ↗

— Alexander McCall Smith

#life #love #miracles #inspirational

I was born when he kissed me, I died when he left me, I lived a few weeks while he loved me ↗

— Dorothy B. Hughes

#love #movies #inspirational

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#investments #people #political #inspirational

The distinction between pretending you are better than you are and beginning to be better in reality is finer than moral sleuth hounds conceive. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#morals #self-improvement #inspirational

You know, the media and politicians are always gonna be in a bit of tension with one another and probably most of the time that's healthy and indeed even creative. But it's where - it's really when news organisations are used as kind of instruments of politics that it gets tricky. ↗

— Tony Blair

#another #bit #creative #even #gets

Again, it may be said, that to love justice and equality the people need no great effort of virtue; it is sufficient that they love themselves. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#effort #equality #great #justice #love

There's the conventional wisdom, of which I have none, where you get a record deal, you get a publicist, you get a campaign, and you do the tour, but none of that adds up to things like nuance and subtlety and dynamic. ↗

— Chris Robinson

#campaign #conventional #conventional wisdom #deal #dynamic

Just pick a goal and stick to it―no big complicated secret. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#encouragement #goals #inspirational-quotes #richelle #richelle-goodrich

I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church. ↗

— Gene Robinson

#bringing #brought #center #church #election