#insp

I can't help it either, the laughing: solemn gatherings, slow ballads, pompous orations, any person or occasion that assumes I'll offer my unreserved respect: I tend to find them all hysterical in the end. Especially if someone similar is there to set me off. They don't have to do much: I recognize what it looks like when somebody's composure starts to strip itself away. They'll maybe cross their arms with that twitchy, shaky, tension, or they'll grab down little wheezes of embarrassed air, or they'll simply hood their faces under their palm, trying to hide how fast they're slipping, how fast *we're* slipping, because I'll be weakening with them by then, I'll be just as lost, pulled equally tight against the moment when we both stop caring and let it disgrace us -- when we laugh. ↗

— A.L. Kennedy

#equality

The amount of time an individual may spend pondering over what his neighbor has and what he does not, is equivalent to the amount of time the individual has lost in becoming an equal to his neighbors. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#inspirational-life #positive-thinking #self-motivation #equality

What fire does not destroy, it hardens ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#spiritual-growth #inspirational

You can't measure time the way you measure the distance between two points. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational

Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. ↗

— Mia Hamm

#inspirational

One thing of great importance can affect a small number of people. Equally so, a thing of little importance can affect a multitude. Either way, a happening — big or small — can affect an entire string of people. Occurences can join us all together. ↗

— Cecelia Ahern

#lesson #people #equality

We could all do with a bit more joy in our lives couldn't we? The wonderful thing is that when we start spreading joy, we begin to actually experience more joy in our lives too! ↗

— Steve Goodier

#joy #spirituality #experience

It's not just about the money. It's about fairness, and equality, and how profoundly our political culture is infused with the imperatives to keep us divided on the most fundamental bases ↗

— Ellen Shaffer

#freedom #inspirational #life #politics #power

The more time you spend thinking, the less time you spend doing. The less time you spend doing, the more you watch others do. This formula never equals success. ↗

— Beatrice McClearn

#equality

I do not try, Lord, to attain Your lofty heights, because my understanding is in no way equal to it. But I do desire to understand Your truth a little, that truth that my heart believes and loves. For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand. For I believe this also, that “unless I believe, I shall not understand. ↗

— Anslem of Canterbury

#inspirational #equality