#insp

The suffering that started off challenging our being and our ideas of what life is and should be ends up opening our heart, expanding our identity, and connecting us forever to the human family and life. ↗

— John P Schuster

#workplace-wisdom #art

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#beautiful #being-yourself #inspirational #beauty

As I stumble through this life help me to create more laughter than tears, dispense more cheer than gloom, spread more joy than despair. Never let me become so indifferent that I will fail to see the wonder in the eyes of a child, or the twinkle in the eyes of the aged. Never let me forget that my total effort is to cheer people, make them happy, and forget momentarily all the unpleasantness in their lives. And in my final moment, may I hear You whisper, 'When you made My people smile, you made Me smile. ↗

— Nancy Mehl

#inspirational #age

The absence of the will to live is, alas, not sufficient to make one want to die. ↗

— Michel Houellebecq

#death #inspirational #life #misery #death

Non-fiction can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies. ↗

— V.S. Naipaul

#writing-philosophy #inspirational

No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#a-new-beginning #endings #endings-and-beginnings #inspirational #inspirational-life

Forever doesn't seem long enough if I'm spending it with you. ↗

— Hannah Weisman

#inspirational #love #inspirational

Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#home

Letting go of fear, attachment, grief and anger is the sannyasin's renunciation. He savours only the taste of his oneness with the ultimate reality. ↗

— Nirvana Upnishad

#anger

The sheer size, extent, and magnitude of the blood vessels tell us two things: the awesomeness of God’s work in man and the fact that as human beings, every one of us is a walking wonder, an amazing work of art. ↗

— Pedro Okoro

#spiritual-development #spiritual-warfare #art