#inspirational

We are getting older fatter and balder. Each day brings us one step closer to death. Other than that, life's a ding-a-derry. ↗

— M. Kushner

#inspirational #death

Schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme to return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements [of civilization]. Only birth can conquer death―the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. ↗

— Arnold Joseph Toynbee

#inspirational #social-evolution #death

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams. ↗

— John Knowles

#dreams

In that nanosecond of enlightenment I knew that the human spirit survives the death of the physical body and I understood that my wandering soul needed to get back into its earthly habitat. ↗

— Janet Bettag

#brain-aneurysm #enlightenment #human-spirit #inspirational #near-death-experience

Find the game where you can win, and then commit your life to playing it; and play to win. ↗

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

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But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. ↗

— George McGovern

#recovery #death

And of course she's sad about losing her leg, but she says it's made her realise how many things she hasn't lost...it's like a millionaire who loses a thousand dollars- he's sad, but he's still not that bad off. ↗

— Michael J. Collins

#death

Professional writers write to fit ↗

— Pamela Glass Kelly

#write #writers #inspirational

It is much better to reveal the whole truth and be rejected . . . then to deny it and be accepted . . ↗

— LexGreat

#wisdom-inspirational #inspirational

...the words of young Ted Kennedy, Jr., who lost his leg to cancer. "People are taught we should look perfect," he said. "I wondered who would ever go out with a kid with one leg. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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