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work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#inspirational #work #family

Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not because they had massive brows and thought deep incomprehensible thoughts, but because they opened windows in the mind, they put their arms round you and showed you things you always knew but never dared to believe. Even if their names were terrifyingly foreign and intellectual sounding, Dostoevsky, Baudelaire or Cavafy, they turned out to be charming and wonderful and quite unalarming after all. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#books #cavafy #dostoevsky #inspirational #stephen-fry

It's good to let your mind wonder, as long as you know where it's going ↗

— Benny Bellamacina

#inspirational #life #philosophical #quote #wisdom

Before I started (college), that's the advice my dad gave me. He said to pick classes based on the teacher whenever you can, not the subject...his point was that good teachers are priceless. They inspire you, they entertain you, and you end up learning a ton even when you don't know it. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#teachers #teaching #wisdom #inspirational

Writing is the thing that props me up. ↗

— Horton Foote

#writing-process #inspirational

Whether I fail or succeed shall be no man's doing but my own. I am the force. ↗

— Elaine Maxwell

#elaine-maxwell #force #inspiration #inspiring #me

You cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them nesting in your hair. ↗

— Eva Ibbotson

#mourning #sorrow #inspirational

Merrill Krause - You mentioned God's will for me. How will I know what that is, Father? Bogart Krause - I've always believed it to start with prayer. The Good Book says that if a man wants wisdom, he just has to ask. I would imagine it works the same way for womenfolk. If you want to know what God's plan is -- then I would ask Him. Couldn't hurt to search the Scriptures, too. And listen to what He is telling you inside. Even when you don't think you're hearing anything, keep listening. ↗

— Tracie Peterson

#inspirational #wisdom #imagination

Do Less. Be More. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#follow-your-heart #inspiration #time-investment #inspirational

We spend our lives asking the question, ‘What do people want me to do? Who do they want me to be?’ But this is a betrayal of our inner truth. We should be investing our lives in the pursuit of discovering who we are and what we were created to do. ↗

— Elizabeth Grace Saunders

#be-true-to-yourself #follow-your-heart #inner-voice #inspiration #motivation