#inspiratio

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ↗

We can never learn too much of His will towards us, too much of His messages and His advice. The Bible is His word and its study gives at once the foundation for our faith and an inspiration to battle onward in the fight against the tempter. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

#against #battle #bible #faith #fight

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. ↗

— Henry Rollins

#be yourself #believe #cut #defines #friends

Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. ↗

— Ned Rorem

#called #could #experienced #inspiration #memory

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97: Wear sunscreen. If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine. Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday. ↗

— Mary Schmich

#mary-schmich #sunscreen #beauty

I don't do what I'm doing to fight terror. ... I do it because I care about kids. Fighting terror is maybe seventh or eighth on my list of priorities. But working over there, I've learned a few things. I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#inspirational #terror #war #death

Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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Education brings about opportunity, and in turn inspiration. ↗

— Bill Frist

#brings #education #inspiration #opportunity #turn

In a gentle way, you can shake the world. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#gentle #shake #way #world #you

Directing, I get all kinds of inspiration. It's working with people. It's a lot more fun. ↗