27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”

— Robert Muller, goodreads.com

“Change takes courage.”

— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, brainyquote.com

“Beneath all the pain, the disappointment, the resentment and fear, there is love. Celebrate the love that you buried in your heart.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom.”

— Conscious Arrival, instagram.com

“Friendship can be really tested only in bad times.”

— Donald Trump, playboy.com

“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”

— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com

“Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth…”

— Chinua Achebe, amazon.com

“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“If you have been brutally broken, but still have the courage to be gentle to others then you deserve a love deeper than the ocean itself.”

— Nikita Gill, meanwhilepoetry.tumblr.com

“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com

“I’ve never aspired to be more than a dreamer. I paid no attention to those who spoke to me of living. I’ve always belonged to what isn’t where I am and to what I could never be. Whatever isn’t mine, no matter how base, has always had poetry for me. The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The on…”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

“We're hallucinating. And that's what this world is: a mass hallucination, where fear seems more real than love. Fear is an illusion. Our craziness, paranoia, anxiety and trauma are literally all imagined.”

— Marianne Williamson, amazon.com

“We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”

— Sam Keen, amazon.com

“You can't love someone while being afraid to lose them. Love & fear can't coexist. Ego will always get in the way.”

— Ebonee Davis, twitter.com

“The children of the nuclear age, I think, were weakened in their capacity to love. Hard to love, when you're bracing yourself for impact. Hard to love, when the loved one, and the lover, might at any instant become blood and flames, along with everybody else.”

— Martin Amis, amazon.com

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

— Arthur Rubinstein, amazon.com

“Every once in a while, life affords you the opportunity to have real, authentic, genuine happiness. It's up to you to see it. Pay attention.”

— Erica Baker, twitter.com

“No friend is better than your own wise heart! Although there are many things you can rely on, no one is more reliable than yourself. Although many people can be your helper, no one should be closer to you than your own consciousness. Although there are many things you should cherish, no one is more…”

— Genghis Khan, amazon.com

“Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death — this infantile fixation of mine — was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having p…”

— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org

“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”

— Georgia O’Keeffe, goodreads.com

“Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.”

— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com

“One does not think during creative work any more than one thinks when driving a car. But one has a background of years – learning, unlearning, success, failure, dreaming, thinking, experience, all this – then the moment of creation, the focusing of all into the moment.”

— Edward Weston, amazon.com

“You build up relationships like that one after another, and before you know it, you have meaning. The more connections, the deeper the meaning.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Is falling in love with someone's story the same thing as falling in love with the person himself?”

— Ally Condie, amazon.com

“When life comes rushing at you out of the darkness who will you choose to face it with? Will it be someone you trust? Will they be wise? And will their love for you help them to guide you to the light, or will they lose their way in the darkness? Will they make noble choices? Or will that person be…”

— William H. Brown, Lucas Scott, Chad Michael Murray, imdb.com

“He feels an irresistible urge to open his heart, to reveal to his friend the darkest corners of his soul, so that their friendship becomes even closer. Sensitive souls confide in each other at such moments; but sometimes, it may happen that one shrinks in fear from contact with the other.”

— Ludwig Tieck, amazon.com

“Remain open to being guided, supported and protected by the universe. Open your mind and heart to life.”

— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com

“The more you feed your mind with positive thoughts the more you can attract great things into your life.”

— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com

“We are asleep. Our Life is a dream. But we wake up sometimes, just enough to know that we are dreaming.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein, goodreads.com

“Understanding the limitations of human beings is the beginning of wisdom.”

— Thomas Sowell, amazon.com