#inspiratio

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#reminding #art

Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection. ↗

— Joseph R. Cooke

#inspirational

Não há nada que toque menos uma obra de arte do que palavras de crítica: elas não passam de mal-entendidos mais ou menos afortunados. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#art

I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. ↗

— Max Lucado

#gentleness #inspirational #inspirational

Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#inspirational

True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not. ↗

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

#gratitude #happiness #inspirational-quotes #satisfaction #attitude

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

Don’t overplay your part – underplay your part. That’s the way to play it effectively. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Every known thief pretends to be a gentleman at first! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#awareness #boldness #changing-the-world #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land. ↗

— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

#inspirational