#ear

You were patient all this time. I had to find myself first; I had to remember who I was and become the person I was meant to be. You have been there for me patiently while I searched for you, even when I didn't know I was looking for you, you were there. ↗

— Rachel Higginson

#jericho #fearless

Yet higher religion, which is only a search for a larger life, is essentially experience and recognized the necessity of experience as its foundation long before science learnt to do so. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#essentially #experience #foundation #higher #larger

I travel 330 days a year and eat every two and a half hours - I'm a big guy. I always carry a fork, little bottles of spices, and Sriracha. I eat what I feel like eating. ↗

— Robert Irvine

#big #big guy #bottles #carry #days

Beneath the violet pillar, in the vacuum before the roar of the cloud, there came a soft sound that might have been heard by those who listened closely: the gentle sigh of an idea unbound. ↗

— Lydia Millet

#science #war #science

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#impermanence #stars #universe #vanity #life

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-and-living #life

From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out. ↗

— Belle Malory

#life #troubles #worries #life

Here is the world. It is not a safe place, but however frightening and bewildering life may become, we can survive our fears, grab them by the wolf ’s tail as Peter did, and make peace with the world. ↗

— Terry Tempest Williams

#fear #peter-the-wolf #safety #survival #survive

Realize that the tests you endure will mold your character, persona, and will. The more heartbreak and pain you will feel with your trials in life, the greater your joy and glory will be once you've overcome. Not IF, not POSSIBLY, not MAYBE, but ONCE you have overcome. ↗

— J. Junior Reynolds II

#glory #heartbreak #joy #life #life-lessons

When it comes to love, compassion, and other feelings of the heart, I am rich. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#feelings #heart #love #wealth #life