#liza

Societies in decline have no use for visionaries. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#inspiration #revolution #inspirational

I am who I am; no more, no less. ↗

— Terry Goodkind

#self-awareness #self-realization #inspirational

She reached for his wrist, clutched it. “How do I look?” “Hurt. Pained. Destroyed.” “If I could look into your eyes, what would I see in them, Iain?” “Devastation. Shame for what I was. Hatred for the vanity and arrogance of my youth. A love for you that has never, ever died, but has only grown and matured, and become all-consuming. Tears,” he said, and pressed his face to hers so she could “see” them. “Because I know it is truly over now that the truth is out, and I don’t know how I’m going to live without you. Forgive me,” he whispered, then stole a kiss from her lips. “Forgive me, and the boy I was, and the man I turned out to be. ↗

— Charlotte Featherstone

#elizabeth #iain #temptation-and-twilight #forgiveness

Your inner strength is your outer foundation ↗

— Allan Rufus

#love #motivation #peace #personal-development #personal-growth

It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#breakups #inspirational #inspirational-love #men-and-women #realization

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? ↗

— Marianne Williamson

#love #motivational #self-empowerment #self-esteem #self-realization

Under chronic stress, your body is more apt to enter a state of dis-ease. Unable to achieve its natural balance, it can’t function the way it should. The ripple effects can be profound. And yet Western medicine has trained us to focus on symptomsrather than root causes like stress. Page 71 ↗

— Nick Ortner

#self-help #self-improvement #self-realization #inspirational

I had lots of good intentions but I wasted them on people who didn't deserve them... ↗

— Bellamkonda Avinash Babu

#inspirational #reality #realization #silence #inspirational

You are the captain of your emotions. No one and nothing can control those feelings except you. You have the sole ability to either let these make or break you, inspire or destroy you."- Elizabeth's Quotes ↗

— Elizabeth E. Castillo

#emotions #quote #inspirational

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