Motivational Quote by Washington Irving — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“For my part, I love to give myself up to the illusion of poetry. A hero of fiction that never existed is just as valuable to me as a hero of history that existed a thousand years ago.”

“To look upon its grass grown yard, where the sunbeams seem to sleep so quietly, one would think that there at least the dead might rest in peace.”

“Perhaps there never was a monument more characteristic of an age and people than the Alhambra; a rugged fortress without, a voluptuous palace within; war frowning from its battlements; poetry breathing throughout the fairy architecture of its halls.”

“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.”

“Balt Van Tassel was an easy indulgent soul; he loved his daughter better even than his pipe, and, like a reasonable man and an excellent father, let her have her way in everything.”

“...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.”

“According to my research, it is clear that we should use both the tropical and sidereal when analysing charts. The tropical method explains what we feel, and how we use our energy from within. The sidereal shows what others feel around us, or from us. Tropical is what we feel. Sidereal is how we're seen.”

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.”

“Revenge is needless; decay carries within itself the seed of its own downfall.”

“To achieve anything, you must be prepared to dabble on the boundary of disaster.”

“My pen is my sword.”

“There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.”