#war

I am not an angel," I asserted; "and I will not be one till I die: I will be myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#empowerment #flaws #freedom #gender #ideal-woman

All you have to do [to win a Pulitzer Prize] is spend your life running from one awful place to another, write about every horrible thing you see. The civilized world reads about it, then forgets it, but pats you on the head for doing it and gives you a reward as appreciation for changing nothing. ↗

— David Baldacci

#change #civilization #detachment #journalism #mankind

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. ↗

— Chauncey Depew

#first #first step #getting #going #somewhere

Therefore do not deceive yourself! Of all deceivers fear most yourself! ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#self-awareness #inspirational

When you blame, you open up a world of excuses, because as long as you're looking outside, you miss the opportunity to look inside, and you continue to suffer. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#conscious-awareness #spirituality #yoga #zen #inspirational

We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#life #life-goes-on #life-lessons #positive #positive-thinking

It's nice to have things to look forward to. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #look-forward-to #stephen-chbosky #the-perks-of-being-a-wallflower #things

She had a flower tattoo on her wrist; "What does that mean?" he asked her. "Absolutely nothing," she said, "it's just a flower. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational #life-and-living #sweet-irony #sweetness #tattoo

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute. ↗

— Tobsha Learner

#inspiration #knowledge #self-awareness #inspirational

Just take this as a warning. Know that there's always a price for not being yourself. ↗

— Benilde Little

#inspirational #orginality #self-awareness #warning #inspirational