#insightful

As he drove away, I began to think that what kept us together was perhaps not even our romance with an imaginary France. That was just a veneer, an illusion. Rather, it was our desperate inability to lead ordinary lives with ordinary people anywhere--ordinary loves, ordinary homes, ordinary careers, watching ordinary television, eating ordinary meals, with ordinary friends--even ordinary friends we didn't have, or couldn't keep. ↗

— André Aciman

#home

I told her that I can't be doing with the Wonder part of these trips, but she said it should be the icing on the cake... I've never liked wedding cake due to the amount of icing, but then imagine a wedding cake without it; just a dark, stodgy, horrible dry sponge. The icing covers up the mess, and that's how I feel about most of the Wonders. They use them to get people to visit a place that you probably wouldn't think about visiting. ↗

— Karl Pilkington

#imagination

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoast than some people imagine. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#imagination

The sky is the limit when you put your mind to the test. ↗

— Zachary Wall

#insightful #inspiration #wise #inspirational

Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love. ↗

— M. Scott Peck

#emotion #feeling #insightful #love #love

To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great. ↗

— Preston Morgan

#inspirational #perseverance #inspirational

Crazy by definition is Knowing that true sanity is A figment of the educated mind ↗

— Caleb Warta

#insightful #insights #life #writing #education

We believe people with Passion CAN change the World for the Better." -Steve Jobs ↗

— Steve Jobs

#inspirational #motivational #change

Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you. ↗