#inspirational

You think it’s because they’re lying? Nonsense! I like it when people lie! Lying is man’s only privilege over all other organisms. If you lie--you get to the truth! Lying is what makes me a man. Not one truth has ever been reached without first lying fourteen times or so, maybe a hundred and fourteen, and that’s honorable in its way; well, but we can’t even lie with our own minds! Lie to me, but in your own way, and I’ll kiss you for it. Lying in one’s own way is almost better than telling the truth in someone else’s way; in the first case you’re a man, and in the second—no better than a bird! The truth won’t go away, but life can be nailed shut; there are examples. Well, so where are we all now? With regard to science, development, thought, invention, ideals, aspirations, liberalism, reason, experience, and everything, everything, everything, we’re all, without exception, still sitting in the first grade! We like getting by on other people’s reason--we’ve acquired a taste for it! Right? Am I right? ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#lying #man #experience

Can a dream be wrong? Aren't dreams God's way of telling you things? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#dreams

Memories are the stars that brighten our dreams. ↗

— Sharon Repp

#dreams #inspirational #memories #stars #dreams

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#mind #thought-provoking #dreams

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance

If there is no door to your dream, create one. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#inspirational #dreams

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #goodness #help #inspirational #death

Death is the reward for living ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#inspirational #peace #spiritual #death

She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-moments #laughter #womens-inspirational #dreams

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fears #happiness #hopes #inspirational #life