#your

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse. ↗

— Robert W. Service

#hand #means #mother #poetry #public

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#brains #choose #decide #direction #feet

What you would not have done to yourselves, never do unto others. ↗

— Alexander Severus

#done #never #others #unto #would

Once upon a time, began the story of you. Many perilous, wonderful, harrowing, brilliant, delightful, profound things happened. And yet—the most exciting twists and best turns are yet to come. And it absolutely does not matter how old or young you are. Like a bright carpet of wonders, enjoy the unrolling of your story. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#events #future #life #lifetime #past

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else has a responsibility to give your life meaning and point… The truly adult view, by contrast, is that our life is as meaningful, as full and as wonderful as we choose to make it. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#existentialism #follow-your-bliss #self-actualization #self-determination #life

I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other. ↗

— Jane Austen

#writing #life

Would you walk to the edge of the ocean Just to fill my jar with sand Just in case I get the notion To let it run through my hand ↗

— The Band Perrry

#love #the-band-perry #life

Actually, years mean nothing. It's what's inside them. ↗

— Simon Van Booy

#life-in-your-years #living #unlived-life #years #life

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. ↗

— Judy Garland

#else #first-rate #instead #second-rate #somebody

In the end, those who demean others only disrespect themselves. ↗