#ability

There is no ownership. There is only stewardship. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#belonging #earth #humanity #life #man

The strongest love is the love that can demonstrate its fragility. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#love #vulnerability #love

Armed I am with love. Disarmed I am. ↗

— Manuel Alegre

#poetry #vulnerability #weapon #love

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies. ↗

— John Donne

#inconstancy #instability #love #passage-of-time #precariousness

The generality of mankind is lazy. What distinguishes men of genuine achievement from the rest of us is not so much their intellectual powers and aptitudes as their curiosity, their energy, their fullest use of their potentialities. Nobody really knows how smart or talented he is until he finds the incentives to use himself to the fullest. God has given us more than we know what to do with. ↗

— Sydney J. Harris

#achievement #curiosity #god #laziness #potential

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. ↗

— Brené Brown

#creativity #innovation #vulnerability #change

The greatest thing a man can do in this world, is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

#capacity #courage #god #inspirational #courage

A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#community #integrity #otherwise #preserve #right

The evil of technology was not technology itself, Lindbergh came to see after the war, not in airplanes or the myriad contrivances of modern technical igenuity, but in the extent to which they can distance us from our better moral nature, or sense of personal accountability. ↗

— David McCullough

#morality #technology #nature

Blind nature will nearly always select the most probable, but man can let the most improbable become actual. ↗

— Hans Jonas

#nature #probability #nature