#inspiration

Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South. ↗

— Jean Webster

#traveler #inspirational

Libraries are not facing crisis, they are in crisis. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

The problem is not that you have problems; the problem is that you see having problems as a problem. ↗

— Maurice Makalu

#inspiration #inspirational #spiritual #spirituality #inspirational

Suffering is tossed by handfuls over the multitudes, with most of it falling on some people and little or none of it on others. ↗

— José Luís Peixoto

#novel #inspirational

Language imparts identity, meaning, and perspective to our human condition. Writers are either polluters or part of the cleanup. ↗

— Mary Pipher

#life #writing #inspirational

Auschwitz was a dark epiphany, providing us with a terrible vision of what life is like when all sense of the sacred is lost and the human being--whoever he or she may be--is no longer revered as an inviolable mystery. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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What children we are, even the wisest! When God walks the earth, his steps are often centuries apart. ↗

— Lew Wallace

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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little In comparison to eternal realities.-- ↗

— Robert Murray McCheyne

#god #happiness #inspirational #peace #perspective

Mile by mile, it's a trial; yard by yard, it's hard; but inch by inch, it's a cinch. ↗

— Gabrielle Giffords & Mark Kelly

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