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"What's meant to be will always find a way"
— Trisha Yearwood

tags: fate, inspiration, love
484 people liked it

"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
232 people liked it

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration
202 people liked it

"Courage: the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
— Maya Angelou

tags: character, consistency, courage, determination, essence, ethos, fortitude, goodness, inspiration, lessons, life, persistence, resolve, self-reliance, strength, virtue, virtues
185 people liked it

"The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all."
— Walt Disney Company (Mulan)

tags: inspiration, life
340 people liked it

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect."
— Anaïs Nin

tags: anais, nin, qoutes, writing
575 people liked it

"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you."
— Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing)

tags: writing
473 people liked it

"I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions."
— James A. Michener

tags: writing
170 people liked it

"One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper."
— Michael Cunningham (The Hours)

tags: fiction, life, writing
223 people liked it

"Always be a poet, even in prose."
— Charles Baudelaire

tags: poetry, prose, writing
155 people liked it

"My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see."
— Joseph Conrad (Lord Jim)

tags: inspirational, tattoo, writing
89 people liked it

"One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, emotions, pain, suffering
75 people liked it

"Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional."
— Dalai Lama

tags: pain, suffering
38 people liked it

"The unending paradox is that we do learn through pain."
— Madeleine L'Engle

tags: pain
33 people liked it

"Loneliness sometimes gives me a quantity of creativeness - you're drinking another glass of wine and you're feeling even worse. Art doesn't work without pain; art also exists for compensating pain."
— Till Lindemann

tags: pain, writing
21 people liked it

"“I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.”"
— Henry Rollins

tags: pain
11 people liked it

"When a man is in despair, it means that he still believes in something."
— Shostakovich

tags: despair, music
20 people liked it

"Let them think what they liked, but I didn't mean to drown myself. I meant to swim till I sank -- but that's not the same thing."
— Joseph Conrad (The Secret Sharer and other stories)

tags: despair, suicide
13 people liked it

"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
2,001 people liked it

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles
5,594 people liked it

"The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: depression, silence
96 people liked it

"That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end."
— Elizabeth Wurtzel

tags: depression
60 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,247 people liked it

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