#w

Women lose their lives not knowing they can do something different..." from Two or Three Things i Know For Sure ↗

— Dorothy Allison

#women #inspirational

Yes, it was too late, and Sabina knew she would leave Paris, move on, and on again, because were she to die here they would cover her up with a stone, and in the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#death #moving #wandering #death

Anyone who writes is too precious to lose. ↗

— Carlos J. Cortes

#writing #inspirational

I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#writing #inspirational

Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore. ↗

— Leon Uris

#inspirational #lonely #writing #inspirational

When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then we are angry at being undervalued. ↗

— Julia Margaret Cameron

#angry #being #creativity #depressed #determine

That is how we become wise, by living each day attending to the lessons God puts in our path. ↗

— Emma Campion

#wisdom #inspirational

What is my calling? What am I supposed to do? I think running for office, public office, can be a divine calling. I mean, I've wrestled with that very question myself. ↗

— Jim Wallis

#calling #divine #i #i think #mean

There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before. ↗

— Malcolm Wallop

#been #before #come #conceive #concept

I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#creative #feeling #feelings #haruki-murakami #inspirational