Fifty Quotes to Inspire

This is just me, sharing a few quotes that have inspired me over the years. I hope that you enjoy. :)

1. "Write hard and clear about what hurts." by Ernest Hemmingway
2. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” by Maya Angelou
3. "Some things and some people are just written in your soul with permanent ink." by JmStorm
4. "It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan." by Elenor Roosevelt
5. "Is there life after death? I do not know, but I died when you left, and I am still alive." by Wiliam C. Henman
6. “I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.” by Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
7. "Maybe life isn't about avoiding the bruises. Maybe it's about collecting the scars to prove we showed up for it." by Unknown
8. "Loneliness is a sign that you are in desperate need of yourself." by Rumi Kaur
9. "Our fingerprints don't fade away from the lives we have touched." by Robert Pattison, Remember Me
10. "A ship is always safe at shore, but that is not what it is built for." by Albert Einstien
11. "You are all the colours in one, at full brightness." by Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places
12. "We all have two lives, the second begins when we realise that we only have one." by Tom Hiddleston
13. "We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are." by Max Dupree
14. "The road to success is always under construction." by Lily Tomlin
15. "If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave." by Mo Williams
16. “You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.” by John Green, Looking For Alaska
17. "In order to love who you are, you cannot hate the experiences that shaped you." by Andrea Dysktra
18. "Anything is possible if you've got enough nerve." by J.K. Rowling
19. “Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.” by Charles Dickens
20. “The thing I realize is, that it's not what you take, it's what you leave.” by Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places
21. “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.” by Robert Frost
22. "Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open." by Natalie Goldberg
23. “We accept the love we think we deserve.” by Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
24. “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." by Douglas Adams
25. "The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive." by John Green, Looking For Alaska
26. "Be brave, the day is ready for you." by Alison Mae
27. “We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.” by Sarah McLachlan
28. “The marks humans leave are too often scars.” by John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
29. “Be thankful for everything that happens in your life; it’s all an experience.” by Roy T. Bennett
30. “I dwell in possibility…” by Emily Dickinson
31. "Don't think. It complicates things, just feel, and if it feels like home, follow its path." by R.M. Drake
32. “Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” by George Bernard Shaw
33. "There are parts of me that will always remain untamable, messy, and reckless; but I refuse to apologize for it anymore." by Kaitlin Fester
34. “I think that sometimes the only real thing is now.” by Suzanne Young, The Program
35. “Stop comparing yourself to others. Always strive to improve yourself to become better today than you were yesterday to serve those around you and the world.” by Roy T. Bennett
36. “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” by Oscar Wilde
37. "Writers are not exactly people. They are a whole bunch of people trying to be one person." by F. Scott Fitzgerlad
38. “Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” by Neil Gaiman, Coraline
39. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” by Eleanor Roosevelt
40. “And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.” by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
41. “We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” by Maya Angelou
42. “The planet has survived everything, in its time. It will certainly survive us.” by Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park
43. "Breathing dreams like air." by F. Scott Fitzgerlad'
44. "Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become." by Brooke Hampton
45. “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” by J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
46. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” by Albert Einstein
47. “Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.” by George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
48. “No. I can survive well enough on my own— if given the proper reading material.” by Sarah J. Maas, Throne of Glass
49. “Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.” by Nicholas Sparks, A Walk to Remember
50. “We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.” by Robert Fulghum, True Love

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