Short Study Motivation Quotes & Sayings

That is what we do for the ones we love: we lie to protect them. Not all truths are welcome. — John Connolly

Came farther into the room, hating the tentative, almost timid feeling inside her, distrusting it because she had never felt tentative or timid around Eddie before. She felt anger as well, although that was still nascent. What right did he have to make her feel that way, after all she had done for him, after all she had sacrificed for him? — Stephen King

Walk in the path of light towards the heavens. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whoever seeks to live by brain and pen alone is, at the beginning of such a career, treated as a sort of social pariah. — Marie Corelli

Brevity in writing is the best insurance for its perusal. — Rudolf Virchow

I have always taken care to put an idea or emotion behind my words. I have made it a habit to be suspicious of the mere music of words. — Leopold Sedar Senghor

It is undeniably easier to ignore the hardships of those who are too weak to demand their rights than to respond sensitively to their needs. To care is to accept responsibility, to dare to act in accordance with the dictum that the ruler is the strength of the helpless. — Aung San Suu Kyi

I don't think it's always a sign of respect for persons (inside or outside of fiction) to pretend to be able to represent, to have access to, their multi-dimensionality at every moment. That doesn't imply people aren't multi-dimensional. — Ben Lerner

I've wanted to write about them for a long while,
but it's a tricky subject,
always put off for later
and perhaps worthy of a better poet,
even more stunned by the world than I.
But time is short. I write. — Wislawa Szymborska

How were you taken prisoner?' The interrogator asked my father. 'The Finns pulled me out of a lake.' 'You traitor! You were saving your own skin instead of the Motherland.' My father also considered himself guilty. That's how they'd been trained. — Svetlana Alexievich

Everyone marched as fast or slow as he liked. — Ken Liu