#ira

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#hate #inspirational #knowledge #life #love

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better. ↗

— Stephen King

#love #pain #inspirational

Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#life-and-living #motivational-quotes #wine #inspirational

Don't worry, life is good despite everything! ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#inspirational

She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet. ↗

— Jane Austen

#self-awareness #self-improvement #wise

Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience, ↗

— Esther Hicks

#experience

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #experience

Love yourself as yourself. Never work to be someone else. Its too hard to keep up. Life is easier when you love you just as you are. ↗

— Janae Marie

#life-and-experience #experience

The author's job is to create a vicarious experience for a complete stranger. ↗

— Lou Jessop

#experience

It was to be a day of queer experiences. He had never realized with how many miracles mere everyday life is besieged. ↗

— Walter de La Mare

#miracles #experience