#insp

The return to the Organization of the United States of America, the bearers of a great and diversified democratic culture that has inspired many other peoples. ↗

— Carlo Azeglio Ciampi

#bearers #culture #democratic #diversified #great

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there. ↗

— William Stafford

#inspirational #inspirational

‎"Today's dirty hands are tomorrow's muddy water ↗

— Danielle Hylton-Outland

#inspirational

One night I dreamed a dream. I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord. When the last scene of my life shot before me I looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life. This always bothered me and I questioned the Lord about my dilemma. "Lord, You told me when I decided to follow You, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I'm aware that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when I need You most, You leave me." He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you. ↗

— Margaret Fishback Powers

#cute #footprints #inspirational #dreams

Dead yesterdays and unborn tomorrows, why fret about it, if today be sweet. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#inspirational

The miracles of our dreams lie beneath our foot soles -- in each and every tiny step we take as we journey to the stars… I reckon the destination isn’t the only miracle. ↗

— Besa Kosova

#dream #dreams #dreams-inspirational #journey #miracles

The whole island was exactly what a kid growing up in some trailer park--say some dump like Tecumseh Lake, Georgia--would dream about. This kid would turn out all the lights in the trailer while her mom was at work. She'd lie down flat on her back, on the matted-down orange shag carpet in the living room. The carpet smelling like somebody stepped in a dog pile. The orange melted black in spots from cigarette burns. The ceiling was water-stained. she'd fold her arms across her chest, and she could picture life in this kind of place. It would be that time--late at night--when your ears reach out for any sound. When you can see more with your eyes closed than open. The fish skeleton. From the first time she held a crayon, that's what she'd draw. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#dreams

If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies. ↗

— Paul Farmer

#decades #downright #easier #either #haiti

We do not know the future, but we are creating it now. How we align the vision we have for a livable place with intelligent actions is what the future of mankind will be. It is all we can do to perfect ourselves. Nature will determine the rest. ↗

— Helen Drayton

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My faith inspires me so much. It is the very reason that I run. I feel that my running is completely a gift from God and it is my responsibility to use it to glorify him. ↗

— Allyson Felix

#faith #feel #gift #glorify #god