#eat

Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last, but that it was essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature - that baby beating its breast with its fist, for instance - and to found that edifice on its unavenged tears: would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me, and tell me the truth!" "No, I wouldn't consent," said Alyosha softly. The Brothers Karamazov Ivan to Alyosha, Book V - Pro and Contra, Chapter 4 - Rebellion ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#god #religion #suffering #the-brothers-karamazov #theodicy

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #inspirational

Y algo golpeaba en mi alma, fiebre o alas perdidas, y me fui haciendo solo, descifrando aquella quemadura y escribí la primera línea vaga, vaga, sin cuerpo, pura, tontería pura sabiduría del que no sabe nada, y vi de pronto el cielo desgranado y abierto. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#imagination #poetry #writing #imagination

In life one of Midnight’s favourite movies had been It’s a Wonderful Life, a touching story where a man called George Bailey is shown how poor the world would have been if he’d never existed, but now the young ghost of Midnight Merlot was sat imagining himself not as the kind hero of his own narrative, but, - but as the anti-George. ↗

— Tom Conrad

#death #existence #ghosts #life #murder

Lies can open up the doors to imagination. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#imagination #lies #imagination

The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can't achieve it. ↗

— Jordan Belfort

#goal #inspiration #motivation #self-defeat #inspirational

I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking ↗

— Albert Einstein

#epiphany #humor #inspiration #humor

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ↗

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that you did not know. ↗

— William Wilberforce

#accomplish #christian #great-britain #heard #hope

Be careful not to mistake insecurity and inadequacy for humility! Humility has nothing to do with the insecure and inadequate! Just like arrogance has nothing to do with greatness! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#greatness #humility #inadequacy #insecurity #wisdom-inspirational