#inspiration

A man is what he has a passion about," Breeze said. 'I've found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll just end up miserable. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#age

the greatest learning of the ages lies in accepting life exactly as it comes to us. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#age

A woman is like whiskey. She evaporates a little over time, distilled by disappointments and grief. One can never predict if the angels will take the best of her or the worst. Only time will tell is the woman that remains will be bitter, dispirited or aged to perfection.. ↗

— Paula Wall

#age

Somehow, we'll find it. The balance between whom we wish to be and whom we need to be. But for now, we simply have to be satisfied with who we are. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#finding-yourself #inspirational #need #satisfaction #truth

Never put an age limit on your dreams ↗

— Dara Torres

#olympics #age

A wealth of experience and wisdom doesn't have to be a dead giveaway to your increasing years. The spin you put on it is what will keep you young. Don't let it make you bitter. Learn from it, and let it make you better. ↗

— Jayleigh Cape

#experience #inspirational #jayleigh-cape #wisdom #youth

What shall I do to be for ever known, And make the age to come my own? ↗

— Abraham Cowley

#i #inspirational #known #own #age

The restoration of man’s inner eyes can hardly be expected in this day and age — unless, first of all, one were willing and determined simply to exclude from one’s realm of life all those inane and contrived but titillating illusions incessantly generated by the entertainment industry. ↗

— Josef Pieper

#human-nature #humanity #inspirational #truth #wisdom

As she stared at them, Waringa noted that their skins were indeed red, like that of pigs or like the skin of a black person who has been scalded with boiling water or who has burned himself with acid creams. Even the hair in their arms and necks stood out stiff and straight like the bristle of an aging hog. ↗

— Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o

#point-of-view #age

Maybe I've forgiven him, but I just haven't forgotten ↗

— c.c hunter

#attitude