#vic

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been ↗

— George R. Gissing

#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#empowerment #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #offenses

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. ↗

— Louis CK

#bored #boredom #inspirational #reprimand #young

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart. ↗

— Adrian Tan

#inspirational #life #love #inspirational

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#confidence #inspirational #motivational #prayer #inspirational

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. ↗

— David Nicholls

#motivating #writing-advice #inspirational

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing. ↗

— Joshua Hartzell

#inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way. ↗

— Joanne Clancy

#inspiration #life #love #romance #experience

Beware of advice—even this. ↗

— Carl Sandburg

#quotes #true #writing-advice #inspirational