#ai

Life’s a marathon, not a sprint. ↗

— Phillip C. McGraw

#advice-for-daily-living #inspirational #life-lessons #motivational #inspirational

Failure? I never encountered it. All I ever met were temporary setbacks. ↗

— Dottie Walters

#inspirational #inspirational

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #deep #effort #far-reaching #goal

Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us." That was all. And that was everything. ↗

— Jack Canfield

#inspirational #pain #inspirational

Veganism is not about giving anything up or losing anything; it is about gaining the peace within yourself that comes from embracing nonviolence and refusing to participate in the exploitation of the vulnerable ↗

— Gary L. Francione

#abolitionist #ahimsa #animals #francione #inspirational-quotes

A man's ego is the fountainhead of human progress. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#inspirational #the-fontainhead #inspirational

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#inspirational

We cheated, you and me, and someone noticed. I noticed you; someone else noticed me. It hurts us. That's not so bad. So many people cheat. Everywhere on every level. Everyone's cheated. I'm just saying that you don't need to see yourself as a cheater. Because that's not who you are. You're someone who cheated. There's a difference, and you should try to get that difference, or that's who you'll grow up to be. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#inspirational

When you catch yourself slipping into a pool of negativity, notice how it derives from nothing other than resistance to the current situation. ↗

— Donna Quesada

#consciousness-raising #spirituality #yoga #zen #inspirational

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world. ↗

— DMX

#connection #flesh #i #i can #learned