#vic

r o l l t h e d i c e if you’re going to try, go all the way. otherwise, don’t even start. if you’re going to try, go all the way. this could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs and maybe your mind. go all the way. it could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. it could mean freezing on a park bench. it could mean jail, it could mean derision, mockery, isolation. isolation is the gift, all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. and you’ll do it despite rejection and the worst odds and it will be better than anything else you can imagine. if you’re going to try, go all the way. there is no other feeling like that. you will be alone with the gods and the nights will flame with fire. do it, do it, do it. do it. all the way all the way. you will ride life straight to perfect laughter, its the only good fight there is. - Charles Bukowski ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#imagination

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society". "If society were really decent, he would have been ↗

— George R. Gissing

#victorian-era #women-s-issues #imagination

Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#empowerment #inspirational-quotes #life #life-and-living #offenses

I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored. ↗

— Louis CK

#bored #boredom #inspirational #reprimand #young

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart. ↗

— Adrian Tan

#inspirational #life #love #inspirational

If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them. ↗

— Wally Lamb

#confidence #inspirational #motivational #prayer #inspirational

The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. ↗

— David Nicholls

#motivating #writing-advice #inspirational

Failure is when you give up. A real winner is someone that doesn't give up, even when it feels like they are losing. ↗

— Joshua Hartzell

#inspiration #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #inspirational

If you boil it down, just because someone else does the wrong thing we are not exempt from doing what’s right. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#good #good-advice #good-and-evil #good-example #goodness

Life is about the people we meet, and the experiences we have along the way. ↗

— Joanne Clancy

#inspiration #life #love #romance #experience