#in

I only live the full life when I live fully in the moment. ↗

— Ann Voskamp

#life

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#story #witness #life

Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking about spiritual things. Even with the best of intentions a spiritual man finds himself exhausted and deadened and debased by the constant noise of machines and loudspeakers, the dead air and the glaring lights of offices and shops, the everlasting suggestion of advertising and propaganda. The whole mechanism of modern life is geared for a flight from God and from the spirit into the wilderness of neurosis. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#introspection #meditation #spirituality #life

Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life! ↗

— Charles Darwin

#natural-selection #species #life

Learn how to think a few moves ahead at once. In life, if you can anticipate the human mind, you can anticipate all possible futures. ↗

— Lionel Suggs

#life-philosophy #possibility #strategy #inspirational

I learned that the world has a soul, and that whoever understands that soul can also understand the language of things. I learned that many alchemists realized their destinies, and wound up discovering the Soul of the World, the Philosopher's Stone, and the Elixir of Life. But above all, I learned that these things are all so simple they could be written on the surface of an emerald. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

على لسان الشيخ أحمد ياسين .. والله انت عارف ، أنا انسان عشت حياتي أملي واحد ، أملي يرضى الله عني ، ورضاه لا يكتسب إلا بطاعته، وطاعة الله تتمثل في الجهاد من أجل إعلاء كلمة الله في الأرض، ومن أجل تطهيرأرض الله من الفساد الذي يقيمه أعداء الله، في الأرض ، فإذا ما حققت الهدف الأول وهو تطهير الأرض الاسلامية من الاغتصاب وقام عليها النظام الاسلامي ، فهذه هي أمنيتي التي أسعى اليها وأرجو الله أن ألقاه عليها ، فإذا تحققت فذلك فضله ، وإن مت قبل أن تتحقق أكون قد بدأت الطريق وخطوت خطوات (والله غالب على أمره ولكن أكثر الناس لا يعلمون ) ↗

— أحمد منصور

#inspirational

But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last. ↗

— George Eliot

#life

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#classic #hope #hope-and-despair #insideoutandbackagain #learning

To the extent that one is responsible for one's life, one is alone. ↗

— Irvin D. Yalom

#life