#inspirationa

We need – more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes – to comprehend the nature of citizenship, to make serious imaginative assessment of that special relationship between the self and the city; its unique plasticity, its privacy and freedom. ↗

— Jonathan Raban

#citizenship #inspirational #sustainability #architecture

Enjoy yourself because you can't change anything anyway. ↗

— Jenny Holzer

#change

Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have---and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. ↗

— James Belasco and Ralph Stayer Flight of the Buffalo

#inspirational #change

Great understanding is broad and unhurried; little understanding is cramped and busy. Great words are clear and limpid; little words are shrill and quarrelsome. ↗

— Chuang Chou

#philosophy #business

Why climb the corporate ladder when you can build an elevator in your own building? ↗

— Joshua E. Leyenhorst

#business-advice #business-quotes #business-start-up #inspirational #self-help

Everything must change, nothing and no one goes unchanged. ↗

— Lyrics to the song "Everything Must Change"

#change

When you don’t know how to fight, then the only future you have is nothing but death. ↗

— Jersey Pugay

#death #inspirational #life #death

The decision to be positive is not one that disregards or belittles the sadness that exists. It is rather a conscious choice to focus on the good and to cultivate happiness--genuine happiness. Happiness is not a limited resource. And when we devote our energy and time to trivial matters, and choose to stress over things that ultimately are insignificant. From that point, we perpetuate our own sadness, and we lose sight of the things that really make us happy and rationalize our way out of doing amazing things. ↗

— Christopher Aiff

#depression #happiness #inspirational #life #living

Life is eternal; and love is immortal; and death is only a horizon; and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight. ↗

— Rossiter Worthington Raymond

#inspirational #life #love #death

Pity, mercy, compassion." "Thats's all I'm afraid," said Alfred. "That is everything," said the phantasm. ↗

— Margaret Weis

#death