#wi

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#inspirational #wilderness #inspirational

Isabelle rolled her eyes. "Oh, for the Angel's sake. Look, if there's no other way of getting out of this, I'll kiss Simon. I've done it before, it wasn't that bad." "Thanks," said Simon. "That's very flattering." "Well, I'm not kissing the mundane," said Jace. "I'd rather stay down here and rot." "Forever?" said Simon. "Forever's an awfully long time." Jace raised his eyebrows. "I knew it," he said. "You want to kiss me, don't you?" Simon threw up his hands in exasperation. "Of course not. But if—" "I guess it's true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That's atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#jace-wayland #kissing #simon-lewis #men

if a sheep eats bushes does it eat flowers too? a sheep eats whatever it finds even a flower with thorn? even a flower with thorns. then what's the good of thorns? ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#the-little-prince #wise #inspirational

Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#inspiration #life #wisdom #inspirational

Going through a tough time doesn't make you a bad person. Those things define who we become. In the best of times, everyone grows and prospers. But when times are at their worst, we find out what we have in us. ↗

— Hattie Clarance

#love-takes-wing #inspirational

Only gravity can hold me down; only myself can hold me back.” ~ Amunhotep El Bey ↗

— Amunhotep El Bey

#motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophy #wisdom-inspirational #wisdom-quote

We have all grown wiser. ↗

— Ana Monnar

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

The friend is a human Eden But Eden is so easily lost When you choose, choose wisely Before you share, count the cost ↗

— Genieve Dawkins

#inspirational #wisdom #friendship

I wrote "David" because it seemed to me that children, who can love a book more passionately than any grown person, got such a lot of harmless entertainment and not enough real, valuable literature. ↗

— Anne Holm

#children #inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

It is a wonderful thing when you stop living for what the world has to offer and start living for what you have to offer the world. ↗

— -Self

#life #wisdom #inspirational