#ding

The day we stop learning is the day we die. ↗

— Michael Scott

#foreboding #inspirational #inspirational

Anguish is the universal language ↗

— Alice Fulton

#empathy #inspiration #language #understanding #inspirational

Denn ich ohne Bücher bin nicht ich. ↗

— Christa Wolf

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

A nation is not defined by its borders or the boundaries of its land mass Rather, a nation is defined by adverse people who have been unified by a cause and a value system and who are committed to a vision for the type of society they wish to live in and give to the future generations to come. ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#inspirational #leadership #nation #nation-building #national-identity

There's a place for talking and criticism. But there's also a place to let our ACTIONS do the talking! ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#nation-building #nigeria #leadership

There are many countries but few nations. We are committed to building Nigeria into a most desirable nation to live ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#democracy #leadership #leadership-development #nations #nigeria

Despite the turbulence our nation has experienced, we WILL arrive safely and without incident! ↗

— Fela Durotoye

#leadership #nation-building #nigeria #leadership

Very occasionally, if you pay really close attention, life doesn't suck. ↗

— Joss Whedon

#illusion #life #understanding #life

Fiction should be a place of lollipops and escape. Real life is depressing enough--I, for one, don't want to read about make believe misery, too. ↗

— Nicole Christie

#fiction #reading #writing #life

We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and the critical spirit, the engine of progress, would not even exist. Like writing, reading is a protest against the insufficiencies of life. When we look in fiction for what is missing in life, we are saying, with no need to say it or even to know it, that life as it is does not satisfy our thirst for the absolute – the foundation of the human condition – and should be better. We invent fictions in order to live somehow the many lives we would like to lead when we barely have one at our disposal. ↗

— Mario Vargas Llosa

#in-praise-of-reading-and-fiction #nobel-prize #reading #life