#inspiration

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Who among us is free? Only those who see their chains know what freedom means.-pg. 123 Welland Hevington, A Memoir "The Demon's Daughter ↗

— Emma Holly

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Though a living cannot be made from art, art makes life worth living. It makes starving, living. ↗

— John Sloan

#inspirational #life #art

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. ↗

— Marcus Allen

#inspirational #death

The journey of the hero is about the courage to seek the depths; the image of creative rebirth; the eternal cycle of change within us; the uncanny discovery that the seeker is the mystery which the seeker seeks to know. The hero journey is a symbol that binds, in the original sense of the word, two distant ideas, the spiritual quest of the ancients with the modern search for identity, always the one, shape-shifting yet marvelously constant story that we find. ↗

— Phil Cousineau

#inspirational #mythology #change

Actually, I feel music becoming more and more important. It's a big source of inspiration. With what's going on in the world, we feel almost desperate. Music also brings you peace. ↗

— Cecilia Bartoli

#almost #also #becoming #big #brings

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Bart D. Ehrman

#intelligence #life #literature #religion #inspirational

Blame is the creed of the disempowered. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#creed #disempowered #happiness #inspirational #life

It is my mood which decides the weather, it is my mood which brings the tiny changes to humankind. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#inspirational #science #change