#in

In the dust of defeat as well as the laurels of victory there is a glory to be found if one has done his best. ↗

— Eric Liddell

#missions #sports #sports

The weaker you are the louder you bark. -Tenten ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#strength #weakness #strength

A fruit salad is delicious precisely because each fruit maintains its own flavor. ↗

— Sean Covey

#fruit-salad #originality #teen

I was flipping channels, watching this cheerleading program on MTV. They took a field hockey girl and “transformed” her into a cheerleader by the end of the show. I was just wondering: what if she liked field hockey better? ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#books #cool #culture #desire #emotion

Industry, technology, and commerce can thrive only as long as an idealistic national community offers the necessary preconditions. And these do not lie in material egoism, but in a spirit of sacrifice and joyful renunciation. ↗

— Adolf Hitler

#principle #renunciation #sacrifice #spirit #thriving

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#health #meditation #mind-training #mindfulness #social-media

Technology tends toward avoidance of risks by investors. Uncertainty is ruled out if possible. People generally prefer the predictable. Few recognize how destructive this can be, how it imposes severe limits on variability and thus makes whole populations fatally vulnerable to the shocking ways our universe can throw the dice. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#technology #uncertainty #technology

America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#capitalism #money #philosophy #profit #men

He landed on his back amid a tangled pile of clothes. "Isabelle," Simon protested weakly, "do you really think this is going to make you feel any better?" "Trust me," Isabelle said, placing a hand on his chest, just over his unbeating heart. "I feel better already. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#teen-fantasy #teen

She could ask for anything, she thought dizzily, anything--an end to pain or world hunger or disease, or for peace on earth. But then again, perhaps these things weren't in the power of angels to grant, or they would already have been granted. And perhaps people were supposed to find these things for themselves. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#city-of-glass #clary-fray #insight #mortal-instruments #teens