#con

The one thing that doesn't abide majority rule is a person's conscience. ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational #inspirational

One third, more or less, of all the sorrow that the person I think I am must endure is unavoidable. It is the sorrow inherent in the human condition, the price we must pay for being sentient and self-conscious organisms, aspirants to liberation, but subject to the laws of nature and under orders to keep on marching, through irreversible time, through a world wholly indifferent to our well-being, toward decrepitude and the certainty of death. The remaining two thirds of all sorrow is homemade and, so far as the universe is concerned, unnecessary. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#sorrow #death

Infelicity is an ill to which all acts are heir which have the general character of ritual or ceremonial, all conventional acts. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#ceremonial #character #conventional #general #general character

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#merely #more #speech #than #ways

War is essential for peace ↗

— Ram Mohan

#inspiration #irony #peace #though #war

Sometimes you just gotta wear the tinfoil hat. ↗

— Gary Hopkins

#energy-healing #enlightenment #funny-humor #god #higher-self

When our focus is toward a principle of relatedness and oneness, and away from fragmentation and isolation, health ensues ↗

— Larry Dossey

#health #inspiration #inspirational

Lovemaking is more than sex, it's a connecting of hearts, meeting of minds, & touching of souls." ~ Dr. Scott Hensley ↗

— Pamela S. Thibodeaux

#contemporary-christian-fiction #contemporary-western-romance #cowboy-romance #inspirational-with-an-edge #pamela-s-thibodeaux

I think all art is about control - the encounter between control and the uncontrollable. ↗

— Richard Avedon

#art #between #control #encounter #i

The retirement system that is in place for members of Congress and other federal workers features what is known as the Federal Employment Retirement Plan. ↗

— Virgil Goode

#employment #features #federal #known #members