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Make whatever decision you wish but never forget one thing: all of you are much better than you believed. Take advantage of the chance that tragedy has given you; not everyone is capable of doing so ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you. ↗

— Louis L'Amour

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#initiative #inspirational #inspirational

It is as deadly for a mind to have a system as to have none. Therefore it will have to decide to combine both. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#combine #deadly #decide #mind #none

If we are to survive, we must have ideas, vision, and courage. These things are rarely produced by committees. Everything that matters in our intellectual and moral life begins with an individual confronting his own mind and conscience in a room by himself. ↗

— Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

#committees #confronting #conscience #courage #everything

(...) And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...) ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#metaphor #pride #purr #smile #art

Children are not a right, they are a privileged obligation. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#obligation #privileged #right

Do you know why hurricanes have names instead of numbers? To keep the killing personal. No one cares about a bunch of people killed by a number. '200 Dead as Number Three Slams Ashore' is not nearly as interesting a headline as 'Charlie kills 200.' Death is much more satisfying and entertaining if you personalize it. Me, I'm still waitin' for Hurricane Ed. Old Ed wouldn't hurt ya, would he? Sounds kinda friendly. 'Hell no, we ain't evacuatin'. Ed's comin'! ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #hurricanes #names #death

And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #sam-gamgee #inspirational

God takes away the minds of poets, and uses them as his ministers, as he also uses diviners and holy prophets, in order that we who hear them may know them to be speaking not of themselves who utter these priceless words in a state of unconsciousness, but that God himself is the speaker, and that through them he is conversing with us. ↗

— Socrates

#inspiration #poet #prophet #socrates #inspirational