#ok

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. ↗

— Gail Thackray

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #positive-outlook #smile #inspirational

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up. ↗

— Lauren Oliver "Before I Fall"

#look-up #past #inspirational

The real world dissolved and I was free to drift in fantasy, living a thousand lives, each one more powerful, more accessible, and more real than my own ↗

— Frank Conroy

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it was the life they would wish to live. ↗

— Herodotus

#the-self-creating-universe #inspirational

True Courage is when you are afraid of something but go through with it anyway ↗

— Victor Castelo

#children-s-books #courage #inspirational #tommy-the-courageous-bird #inspirational

We took the insurance companies out of the driver's seat. ↗

— John Salazar

#driver #insurance #insurance companies #out #seat

Friendships begun in this world will be taken up again, never to be broken off. ↗

— Saint Francis de Sales

#begun #broken #friendships #never #off

I know who the real hero is, and it isn't me or brave Lanaya. It's an old man with a white beard and a walking stick and a heart so big it won't let him stop thinking he can change the world by writing down things in a book no one will ever read. ↗

— Rodman Philbrick

#book #dreams #hero #heroes #old-man