27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“I dream of a love that is more than two people craving to possess one another.”

— Irvin D. Yalom, amazon.com

“Whatever consumes your mind controls your life.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“I also think many of you are quick to say strange things when a professionally successful person says they are having a hard time. There is lots of “but you’re doing so well” as if you have any idea what someone is dealing with.”

— Roxane Gay, twitter.com

“I am starting to learn that maybe walking away is the best thing you can do for yourself, and for the person you love. Maybe walking away is you making peace with the fact that sometimes things and people and happiness changes. Maybe it is the bravest thing you can do. Maybe, when you walk away, you…”

— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com

“Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality.”

— Theodor Reik, amazon.com

“Yoga and life are different ways of saying the same thing.””

— Jon Kabat-Zinn, amazon.com

“Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.”

— Leo Buscaglia, goodreads.com

“Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.”

— George Foreman, npr.org

“The dream reveals the reality, which conception lags behind. That is the horror of life—the terror of art.”

— Franz Kafka, amazon.com

“Friendship is a two way street.”

— Unknown, rider.edu

“There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realised.”

— Conan O'Brien, youtube.com

“What is bad news to one person might be good news to someone else. And sometimes, what seems like good news might actually be something full of sadness, misery, and grief.”

— Daniel Handler, Lemony Snicket, Patrick Warburton, imdb.com

“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, and others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into and sometimes it’s the one you make for yourself.”

— Terri Minsky, Carrie Bradshaw, Sarah Jessica Parker, imdb.com

“The wonderful thing about language is that it promotes its own oblivion: my eyes follow the lines on the paper, and from the moment I am caught up in their meaning, I lose sight of them.”

— Maurice Merleau Ponty, amazon.com

“You don't know what love is 'Til you've learned the meaning of the blues Until you've loved a love you've had to lose You don't know what love is”

— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com

“God forbid that the day should ever come when, in the American mind, the thought of man as a 'consumer' shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God, endowed with 'unalienable rights'.”

— Benjamin Harrison, en.wikiquote.org

“Life is an ocean, and most everyone’s hanging on to some kind of dream to keep afloat.”

— Tim Tharp, amazon.com

“So be authentic when you feel angry toward your lover or your beloved. Be authentic while you are in anger, and then with no repression, when the moment of love will come, when the mind will move to the other extreme, you will have a spontaneous flow. So with mind, take fighting as part of it. It is…”

— Osho, amazon.com

“What is art really? The outcome of dissatisfaction with life, the point of impact for the creative force, the continual movement of life.. ..in my art I attempt to explain life and its meaning to myself.”

— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org

“Is it so far from madness to wisdom?”

— George R. R. Martin, amazon.com

“Conscious contact with love interrupts the pattern of fear and returns us to our true nature.”

— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com

“Self love forces you to change while fear begs you to stay the same.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“My only point, the only point that I'm making, is life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is--all--over....”

— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com

“Let’s stop saying, “Yung iba nga diyan eh.” (Other people have it worse). Be content with your life not because you see poverty & misery in other people. Find happiness within you & stop comparing your advantage or privilege over others. Do you really have to look at their flaws to feel better about…”

— M.A. Buendía  , twitter.com

“In life, always strive to be the kind of person who can see humans at their worst and still love them, because that is when they need love the most.”

— Nikita Gill, thoughtcatalog.com

“My imagination gave me a dual life: I lived in my body, and at the same time lived a life no one could see.”

— Andre Dubus, amazon.com

“My art is rooted in a single reflection: why am I not as others are? ..my art gives meaning to my life.”

— Edvard Munch, en.wikiquote.org

“Well may the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country's peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.”

— James K. Polk, yale.edu

“"Have you ever had a dream so real That you felt the life you live was fake"”

— Fetty Wap, genius.com

“This life is nothing but a short, painful dream. Thanks to His guidance, I have made it through this far.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com