27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

— Steve Biko, amazon.com

“Without an open-minded mind, you can never be a great success.”

— Martha Stewart, inc.com

“When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”

— Jeff Bezos, businessinsider.com

“It’s a most distressing affliction to have a sentimental heart and a skeptical mind.”

— Naguib Mahfouz, amazon.com

“You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.”

— Timothy Leary, youtube.com

“no one owes you anything - not your momma, not your god, not your universe. earn yours. do the work.”

— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com

“The average person has the most fear of death and in reality thinks most rarely about it. The most prominent one occupies himself with it most persistently, but nevertheless fears it the least. The one lives blindly day to day, sinning away, only to sink down before the grim reaper. The other carefu…”

— Adolf Hitler, amazon.com

“No such thing as original thought. We are shadows of stars that burned before our time.”

— Tom Hiddleston, twitter.com

“Often, when you are on the spiritual path, there is a war that goes on between the person you once were and the person you are becoming.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“I'm tryna be the person that I actually wanna be.”

— Lindy West, Alexandra Rushfield, Aidy Bryant, Annie, Aidy Bryant, imdb.com

“Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.”

— Natalie Goldberg, amazon.com

“The universe is responding to your choices & actions. Don't confuse it by saying you want one thing & behaving like you want another.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“No one can tell another man is true. Truth is all around us...Truth is where ever man has glimpsed divinity.”

— Gore Vidal, amazon.com

“It only takes one match to ignite a haystack, or one remark to fire a mind.”

— Lawrence Durrell, amazon.com

“You have to know who you are and who you belong to. Fear doesn’t have any right to you. It doesn’t own you.”

— Joel Osteen, twitter.com

“I fall in love with ideas and fantasies rather than whole beings and then I sit here and wonder why I’m still alone. It’s because I don’t fucking pay attention. I’m too busy thinking about tomorrow that today falls through the cracks.”

— Ryan O'Connell, thoughtcatalog.com

“The truth is, partnership is tenuous, and the current prevailing model was constructed only after thousands of years of different examples, most completely unrelated to a modern understanding of Western marriage, and which for a long time excluded interracial and queer couples. My in-laws, together…”

— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com

“Writing requires courage, audacity. I'm not suggesting that there is something heroic about writing, but I do believe that to commit words and ideas to the page demands something of the writer.”

— Roxane Gay, amazon.com

“Do you ever wonder what you'd do? When all the chips were down. If you doubt you'd do what a man would do when danger comes around. Then take the test to prove the case, if courage calls.”

— Jake Xerxes Fussell, open.spotify.com

“It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.”

— Muriel Spark, amazon.com

“A person without curiosity may as well be dead.”

— Judy Blume, amazon.com

“No person has the right to rain on your dreams.”

— Martin Luther King Jr., books.google.com.ph

“Who is the most interesting person you ever met?”

— Peter W. Murphy, amazon.com

“Consider for a moment that what you call your "personality" is actually just a composite of habits & behavioral patterns you developed to cope with trauma. Now ask yourself, who am I outside of my pain? Who would I be if I stopped living life as a product of my story?”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“My father and his father believed the best definition of courage was Admiral Lord Nelson’s advice: 'No captain can do very wrong if he places his ship alongside that of the enemy.'”

— John McCain, amazon.com

“Healing takes more than time. It takes intentionality. It takes the humility and courage to call what hurts by its name and the resolve to do the work that freedom demands.”

— Jackie Hill Perry, twitter.com

“Integrity is choosing courage over comfort. It's choosing what is right over what is fun, fast, or easy. It's choosing to practice your values rather than simply professing them.”

— Brené Brown, twitter.com

“There are two ways to think about all this. One way is that life is absurd to start with and that only a mad man goes out and tries to change the world, to fight for good and against evil. The other way is that life is indeed absurd to start with and that it can be given meaning only if you live it…”

— Leonard Bernstein, goodreads.com

“Jesus invites us to take the 'lower place.' No need to puff yourself up. God knows your gifts. Who cares if others do? Who cares what others think at all? Don't fret about it. As C.S. Lewis said, 'Humility is not thinking less of yourself. It's thinking of yourself less.'”

— James Martin, SJ, twitter.com

“Memory is holographic, possessing no precise location in the brain. In theory, any neuron has the capacity to hold links to any memory via some rudimentary, free-association ‘software.’ Any brain cell can contain the memory of a childhood toy, smell of a neighborhood barbecue, or the touch of a roma…”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com