#inspiratio

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#act #charitable #every #heaven #stepping

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#far #heaven #into #men #often

Become the leader of your life. Lead yourself to where you want to be. Breathe life back into your ambitions, your desires, your goals, your relationships. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#breathe #desires #goals #inspirational #leader

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#gives #inspiration #lack #us

I get lost in the beauty, Of everything I see. The world ain't half as bad, As they paint it to be. ↗

— One Republic

#inspirational #one-republic #song-lyrics #songs #beauty

If I am in love, many things about the world, not just the immediate object of my love, seem lovable. To say 'I love X' is somehow really to say 'X inspires love in me', and that love then attaches itself to objects other than X as well. The expansiveness of love is a natural means of ascent between levels. ↗

— Robin Waterfield

#diotima #plato #socrates #symposium #inspirational

The face of everyone in mine, the oneness with every blade of grass, the flight with the flocks in the sky, the dance with the clouds across endless skies. The strength with every tree, rooting deep into mother earth, springing forth into the heavens, extending branches of gratitude and love.... Such a privilege, honor and grace, such a gift and joy. ↗

— Patsie Smith

#enlightenment #essence-of-life #inspiration #life #nature

The faerie represent the beauty we don't see, or even choose to ignore. That's why I'll paint them in junkyards, or fluttering around a sleeping wino. No place or person is immune to spirit. Look hard enough, and everything has a story. Everybody is important."- Jilly Coppercorn ↗

— Charles de Lint

#inspirational #spirit #beauty

In the 1880s, people all over the world looked to America for inspiration. Its very existence was proof that it was possible to have a relatively free and peaceful country. No income tax, no foreign wars, no welfare state, no intrusions on civil liberties. ↗

— Harry Browne

#civil #civil liberties #country #existence #foreign