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He was a thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the best of me and the worst of men, the most protean, most ridiculous, and most sublime. No more baffling, exasperating soldier ever wore a uniform. Flamboyant, imperious, and apocalyptic, he carried the plumage of a flamingo, could not acknowledge errors, and tried to cover up his mistakes with sly, childish tricks. Yet he was also endowed with great personal charm, a will of iron, and a soaring intellect. Unquestionably he was the most gifted man-at arms- this nation has produced. -William Manchester on Douglas MacArthur ↗

— William Raymond Manchester

#interesting #macarthur #paradox #inspirational

In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels ↗

— Daniel Goleman

#emotion #inspirational #love #neuropsychology #science

A room is not just a room. A room is a manifestation of a state of mind, the product of an intelligence. Either conscious (...) or unconscious. We make our rooms, and then our rooms make us. ↗

— Will Wiles

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I think the act of reading imbues the reader with a sensitivity toward the outside world that people who don't read can sometimes lack. I know it seems like a contradiction in terms; after all reading is such a solitary, internalizing act that it appears to represent a disengagement from day-to-day life. But reading, and particularly the reading of fiction, encourages us to view the world in new and challenging ways...It allows us to inhabit the consciousness of another which is a precursor to empathy, and empathy is, for me, one of the marks of a decent human being. ↗

— John Connolly

#inspirational #reading #inspirational

It's so tempting to try to do it all, so as not to miss out. But to do all of those 'good things' means you'll do none of them well. ↗

— Shaunti Feldhahn

#christian-woman #inspirational #inspirational

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11) ↗

— Confucius

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Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

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We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking ↗

— Finis Mitchell

#life #nature #inspirational

Anguish is the universal language ↗

— Alice Fulton

#empathy #inspiration #language #understanding #inspirational

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

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