#inability

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

They have taken the idea of nonharming, of gentleness toward the earth, to a very radical level. Even the weeds are not enemies. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #japan

Time is what we have in this life, and how we use it determines what our life is. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #green #japan #sustainability #time

Sometimes just to touch the ground is enough for me, even if not a single thing grows from what I plant. ↗

— Andy Couturier

#environmentalism #gardening #green #japan #sustainability

I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters. ↗

— John Cazale

#find #i #inability #makes #oneself

It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences. ↗

— Audre Lorde

#celebrate #differences #divide #inability #our

Our inability to relate to one another is very, very, very important. When we don't have it, we get situations like Bosnia. ↗

— Edward James Olmos

#bosnia #get #important #inability #like

How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself. ↗

— Criss Jami

#being-yourself #celebrities #emotional #facade #fame

If we are going to start calling industrial corn sustainable, then we might as well say that petroleum is a renewable resource if you're willing to wait long enough. ↗

— Catherine Friend

#humor #sustainability #food

Hatred is a louder exhibition of inability. ↗

— Qaisar Iqbal Janjua

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational