27 Beautiful Quotes From Inspiring Instagram Poets You Absolutely Must Follow

“I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.”

— George Washington Carver, christianquotes.info

“Fear and excitement are sometimes indistinguishable.”

— Jennifer Egan, newyorker.com

“The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“When did I learn to fear even the smallest things.”

— Yuxi Lin, spilledmilkmagazine.com

“There is no one thing to say about anything.”

— Richard Ohmann, amazon.com

“I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”

— T. S. Eliot, poetryfoundation.org

“Dare to be vulnerable in the moment.”

— Mel Robbins, twitter.com

“Philosophy becomes tortured thinking. Thinking that devours itself—and continues intact and even flourishes, in spite (or perhaps because) of these repeated acts of self-cannibalism.”

— Susan Sontag, emcioranbr.org

“Doubt is wisdom. People are dangerous when they are certain that their cause is just and their facts are right.”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“Failure can become our most powerful path to learning if we're willing to choose courage over comfort.”

— Brené Brown, twitter.com

“Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

— Fred Rogers, amazon.com

“The world is our oyster, our source of wisdom, our power of now and the future. I believe in the power of words. Therefore, I read.”

— Yoko Ono, twitter.com

“Your success grows in direct proportion to your courage to use your gifts to serve the world.”

— Jordan Bacj, twitter.com

“It takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience.”

— Albert Camus, amazon.com

“Take responsibility of your own happiness; never put it in other people’s hands.”

— Roy T. Bennett, amazon.com

“Happiness is not how many things you do, but how well you do them.”

— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com

“Only 3 things can change our life: Dreams, Suffering and Love”

— Paulo Coelho, twitter.com

“Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.”

— T. S. Eliot, amazon.com

“All obstacles that are perceived with love can transform into the greatest life lessons.”

— Gabby Bernstein, twitter.com

“Sometimes you realize that true love in its absolute form has many purposes in life.”

— Deborah Copaken, John Carney, Julie, Catherine Keener, imdb.com

“You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.”

— Billy Wilder, en.wikiquote.org

“Life is short and love conquers all. Or at least that’s the way it should be.”

— Hugh Hefner, amazon.com

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

— Mahatma Gandhi, goodreads.com

“Have no fear of perfection - you’ll never reach it.”

— Salvador Dalí, goodreads.com

“Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves. All people live in their own dream, in their own mind; they are in a completely different world from the one we live in. When we take something personally, we make the assumption that they know what is in our world, and we try t…”

— Don Miguel Ruiz, amazon.com

“'Well, that's the thing,' she said, ‘your first love isn’t the first person you give your heart to— it’s the first one who breaks it.'”

— Lang Leav, amazon.com

“When we pass by another person without telling them we love them it’s cruel and wrong and we all know this.”

— Dave Eggers, amazon.com

“All stories begun and enacted by men unfold their true meaning only when they have come to their end.”

— Hannah Arendt, amazon.com

“I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.”

— Herodotus, amazon.com

“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

— Tom Bodett, amazon.com