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You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #mind #mindpower #thinking #thoughts

We have not made the Revolution, the Revolution has made us. ↗

— Georg Buchner

#revolution #us

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#possess #understand #whatever #you

Human potential is amazing...We have the capacity to create a world that is peaceful...one that spreads kindness and love rather than hatred. If we believe it to be so, it will be our truth, and we will create it. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#human-potential #kindess #love #change

If Education was a guild, I would still be an apprentice. ↗

— Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#kambiz-mostofi #kambiz-mostofizadeh #mostofizadeh #education

Life seems to be fashioned and formed best out of the obstacles that seem unbearable. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

I may be drunk by morning but that will not do any good. I shall take the train to Paris anyway. The train will be the same, the people, struggling for comfort and, even, dignity on the straight-backed, wooden, third-class seats will be the same, and I will be the same. We will ride through the same changing countryside northward, leaving behind the olive trees and the sea and all of the glory of the stormy southern sky, into the mist and rain of Paris. Someone will offer to share a sandwich with me, someone will offer me a sip of wine, someone will ask me for a match. People will be roaming the corridors outside, looking out of windows, looking in at us. At each stop, recruits in their baggy brown uniforms and colored hats will open the compartment door to ask Complet? We will all nod Yes, like conspirators, smiling faintly at each other as they continue through the train. Two or three of them will end up before our compartment door, shouting at each other in their heavy, ribald voices, smoking their dreadful army cigarettes. There will be a girl sitting opposite me who will wonder why I have not been flirting with her, who will be set on edge by the presence of the recruits. It will all be the same, only I will be stiller. ↗

— James Baldwin

#change

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America? ↗

— John Updike

#angstrom #inspirational #isolation #loneliness #outside

All we have to do is understand that we're all here for a reason and to commit ourselves to that. Then we can laugh at our sufferings, large and small and walk fearlessly, aware that each step has meaning ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #life #love #meanings #paulo-coelho

Recognize, manage and master your beliefs. They aren’t genetic. They are choices. Choose ones that serve you. ↗

— Christopher Babson

#inspirational-speaker #motivational-quotes #motivational-speaker #personal-development #personal-growth