27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.”

— Fernando Pessoa, amazon.com

“you turning a thought into love for a stranger may be the only gravity that keeps them strong enough to keep holding on”

— Jacqueline Whitney, instagram.com

“Loss inherently makes the loser sympathetic. We can easily be made to feel bad for the person on the other side of a true catastrophe, even if just minutes before we thought they had it coming to them.”

— Ryan Holiday,

“The important thing—follow the rules and the woods will wordlessly accept me, sharing some of their peace and beauty. Cross the line, though, and beasts of silence lay in wait to maul me with razor-sharp claws.”

— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com

“Grief hurts, sadness hurts, but it's not the feelings that destroy us. It's what we tell ourselves about the feelings.”

— Geneen Roth, amazon.com

“If you're not willing to learn, no one can help you. If you're determined to learn, no one can stop you.”

— Lecrae, twitter.com

“Don't call it a dream. Call it a plan.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

“Wisdom can’t be taught and by the same token can’t be learned. Instead, it’s the kind of knowledge you become.”

— Deepak Chopra, huffingtonpost.com

“Not a leaf repeats itself, we only repeat the word.”

— Muriel Spark, www3.nd.edu

“One word of truth outweighs the whole world.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, goodreads.com

“People have no meaning to her. She has no answer for them.”

— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com

“Everyone wants to lead a peaceful, happy life, but happiness and success aren’t measured by how much money you have, but by whether you have inner peace in your heart.”

— Dalai Lama, twitter.com

“Excess of happiness must always end in sorrow.”

— Marie Corelli, amazon.com

“I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do. That was the wonderful liberation of being divorced and having children. I did not mind failure, ever, but I minded…”

— Toni Morrison, theparisreview.org

“I never went to bed in my life and I never ate a meal in my life without saying a prayer. I know my prayers have been answered thousands of times, and I know that I never said a prayer in my life without something good coming of it.”

— Jack Dempsey, books.google.com

“This love I live is nowhere in my heart, it cannot stay with what is mortal, where it meets with error and with evil thought.”

— Michelangelo Buonarroti, amazon.com

“Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had?”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“...in the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

— Gertrude Stein, amazon.com

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, goodreads.com

“I loved voices, I always had. Words held meaning, but voices held emotion.”

— Kimberly Derting, amazon.com

“I never realized what a big deal that was. How amazing it is to find someone who wants to hear about all the things that go in your head. You just think that things will stay the way they are. You never look up, in a moment that feels like every other moment in your life, and think, Soon this will b…”

— Nina LaCour, amazon.com

“Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached.”

— Ralph Ellison, amazon.com

“If you’re happy in a dream, does that count?”

— Arundhati Roy, amazon.com

“Honesty that's motivated by shame, anger, fear or hurt is not 'honesty.' It's shame, anger fear or hurt disguised as honesty.”

— Brené Brown, amazon.com

“Forgiveness is really just another word for freedom.”

— Julie Lessman, amazon.com

“It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.”

— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com

“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”

— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com

“Since [Walton v. Arizona, 497 U.S.], I have acquired new wisdom ...or, to put it more critically, have discarded old ignorance.”

— Antonin Scalia, oyez.org

“The world is a drama, staged in a dream.”

— Sri Guru Granth Sahib, amazon.com