#ali

Sooner or later you'll hear what your heart has always been telling you: stop trying to be who you think you should be - become who you are. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#self-realization #business

Liberty medals...Are they trying to bribe me with coloured ribbons? I wouldn't kill a man for one of those things. Or go and be killed. Any shooting I do is to save my own life, and not for a ribbon and a hunk of bronze. [says Mäkelä] ↗

— Väinö Linna

#killing #morality #war #life

Morality negates life. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#life

There is a light within our soul that burns brighter than the sun. And we ignore it. ↗

— Basith

#spirituality #life

The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence. ↗

— Eddie Rickenbacker

#character #cornerstones #four #imagination #independence

It is possible to experience an awakening in this life through realising just how precious each moment, each mental process, and each breath truly is. ↗

— Christy Turlington

#breath #each #experience #how #just

Perhaps areas of Israel where current large Palestinian populations and demographic realities exist could be exchanged for Israeli expansion into the West Bank to include most of East Jerusalem. ↗

— Geraldo Rivera

#bank #could #current #demographic #east

The smoke detectors began to ring; for they were battery-powered and thus still functioned, just as a record can still be played after the death of every member of the orchestra. ↗

— William T. Vollmann

#music #time #death

I have not once felt a thing for the male sex, I was only interested in the fairer sex. Mine. ↗

— Novala Takemoto

#lesbian #love #love

For the future, I shall rely only upon those elements of my character which I have tested. Who would ever have said that I should find pleasure in shedding tears? That I should love the man who proves to me that I am nothing more than a fool? ↗

— Stendhal

#personality #wisdom #love