#inspiration

My God, my aim and my fulfillment; I am thy yesterday and thou are my tomorrow. I am they root in the earth and thou art my flower in the sky, and together we grow before the face of the sun. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#art

What would you think of an engineer who expounded the art of flying without revealing the secrets of the engine and propeller? That's what you do, you engineer of the human soul. Just that. You're a coward. You want the raisins out of my cake but you don't want the thorns of my roses. Haven't you too, little psychiatrist, been cracking silly jokes about me? Haven't you ridiculed me as "the prophet of bigger and better orgasms"? Have you never heard the whimpering of a young wife whose body has been desecrated by an impotent husband? Or the anguished cry of an adolescent bursting with unfulfilled love? Does your security still mean more to you than your patient? How long will you go on valuing your respectability above your medical mission? How long will you refuse to see that your pussyfooting procrastination is costing millions their lives? ↗

— Wilhelm Reich

#fear #inspirational #ridicule #art

I know I will always be attracted to the unknown as it does often verify what I am or what else I could be. ↗

— Hollace M. Metzger

#hollace-m-metzger #inspirational #interview #literary #quote

The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does. ↗

— Hugh MacLeod

#dreams #inspirational #people #change

The world lies in the hands of those that have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams - each according to his or her own talent. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#courage

Fear is the thief of dreams. ↗

— Brian Krans

#fear #inspirational #dreams

I don't dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I'm dreaming for living. ↗

— Steven Spielberg

#dreams

Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and broken dreams. We carry on. ↗

— Tim McGraw

#inspirational #song-lyrics #dreams

He is a great enough magician to tap our most common nightmares, daydreams and twilight fancies, but he never invented them either: he found them a place to live, a green alternative to each day's madness here in a poisoned world. We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers - thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise the colonizers of dreams. ↗

— Peter S. Beagle

#inspirational #tolkien #dreams

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#politics #presidential #inspirational