#cons

God favors men and women who delight in being made worthy of happiness before the happiness itself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#considerate #delight #favor #god #happiness

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#american-society #consumerism #wanting #inspirational

Let me start by saying that I do not enjoy nor relish the partisan role of attack dog. I never found any fun in that. I don't think it's constructive. I don't intend to become that here in the Senate. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#attack #become #constructive #dog #enjoy

A country of free men is not free if they are owned by somebody else. ↗

— Joseph P. Sekula

#debt #government #history #men

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#demands #difficult #fidelity #greater #heroic

We are the cosmos made conscious and life is the means by which the universe understands itself. ↗

— Brian Cox

#cosmos #inspirational #life #universe #inspirational

I would rather be a conscious wrongdoer than a mindless saint. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#forgiveness #god #god-consciousness #mindful-of-god #piety

Se antes de cada acto nosso nos puséssemos a prever todas as consequências dele, a pensar nelas a sério, primeiro as imediatas, depois as prováveis, depois as possíveis, depois as imagináveis, não chegaríamos sequer a mover-nos de onde o primeiro pensamento nos tivesse feito parar. ↗

— José Saramago

#inspirational #inspirational

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#consciousness-raising #inspirational-quotes #joy #letting-go #mindfulness

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