#at

Yet it would be your duty to bear it, if you could not avoid it: it is weak and silly to say you cannot bear what it is your fate to be required to bear. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#fate #jane-eyre #duty

Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.) ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#helping-others #latin #self #duty

It’s your duty as my best friend to be outraged with me.” “I’m outraged!” I snarled. “That bastard!” “Thank you,” Andrea said. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#best-friends #kate #duty

Action without a name, a "who" attached to it, is meaningless. ↗

— St. Jerome

#attached #meaningless #name #who #without

If you treat what you value most in life more like a garden and less like a vending machine, you’ll probably be happier. (from You Oughta Know By Now) ↗

— Brian P. Cleary

#inspriration #inspirational

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring. ↗

— Jennifer Skiff

#joy #kindness #love #pain #inspirational

The best way to solve a problem is to prevent it. ↗

— chibisa charles

#inspirational

The drama of the essay is the way the public life intersects with my personal and private life. It's in that intersection that I find the energy of the essay. ↗

— Richard Rodriguez

#essay #life #private #public #richard-rodriguez

The plays should have the half-life of plutonium. ↗

— Suzan-Lori Parks

#plays #theater #life

I worship impersonal Nature, which is neither "good" or "bad", and who knows neither love nor hatred. I worship Life; the Sun, Sustainer of life. I believe in the Law of everlasting struggle, which is the law of life, and in the duty of the best specimens of our race — the natural élite of mankind — to rule the earth, and evolve out of themselves a caste of supermen, a people 'like unto the Gods'. ↗

— Savitri Devi

#nature #truth #life