#ali

Success is realising the true joy and wonder of life can only be yours if you follow your own intuition, aiming to achieve your bliss. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#bliss #intuition #joy #life #realising

In the twentieth century nothing can better cure the anthropocentrism that is the author of all our ills than to cast ourselves into the physics of the infinitely large (or the infinitely small). ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#reality #life

You live as if you were destined to live forever, no thought of your frailty ever enters your head, of how much time has already gone by you take no heed. You squander time as if you drew from a full and abundant supply, so all the while that day which you bestow on some person or thing is perhaps your last. You have all the fears of mortals and all the desires of immortals… What foolish forgetfulness of mortality to defer wise resolutions to the fiftieth or sixtieth year, and to intend to begin life at a point to which few have attained. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#time #life

Neither I nor the four flippers of the sea-bear of the Boreal ocean have been able to solve the riddle of life. ↗

— Comte de Lautréamont

#poetry #surreal #surrealism #life

...by bringing myself over the edge and back, I discovered a passion to live my days fully, a conviction that will sustain me like sweet water on the periodically barren plain of our short lives. ↗

— Jonathan Waterman

#life #mountaineering #life

The decent person is hard to be found as if your are a decent person it will be very hard to stay decent ↗

— Hesham Alaa

#life #logic-reason #mind #people #reality

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal. -- from The Sexual Side of Spirituality ↗

— Aberjhani

#metaphysics #passion #sexuality #spirituality #life

There is no conscience in a real war. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #real #reality #truth #war

[T]he commitment to a framework neutral among ends can be seen as a kind of value [...] but its value consists precisely in its refusal to affirm a preferred way of life or conception of the good. ↗

— Michael J. Sandel

#liberalism #life

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, “What are you made of?” After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life together, I shouted at the top of my lungs, “HOPE! Unbreakable, undeniable, irrevocable hope! ↗

— Jay Grewal

#enlightenment #god #hope #inspirational #motivational