#inspirational

You have to start by changing the story you tell yourself about getting older... The minute you say to yourself, 'Time is everything, and I'm going to make sure that time is used the way I dream it should be used,' then you've got a whole different story. ↗

— Diane Sawyer

#change

Realize this – your anger with God does not drive a wedge between you and Him. It is your silence that drives the wedge. - Prodigal Life ↗

— Pauline Creeden

#god #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #silence #anger

Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. ↗

— Chris Guillebeau

#non-conformist #uplifting #art

We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#reminding #art

One of the many things I learned at the end of that Classics corridor down which I ventured at the age of 18, in search of something I could not then define, was this, written by the Greek author Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality. That is an astonishing statement and yet proven a thousand times every day of our lives. It expresses, in part, our inescapable connection with the outside world, the fact that we touch other people’s lives simply by existing. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#humanity #inspirational #age

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

Don’t overplay your part – underplay your part. That’s the way to play it effectively. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Every known thief pretends to be a gentleman at first! ↗

— Dhruv Gandhi

#awareness #boldness #changing-the-world #inspirational #inspirational-attitude

Wealth converts a strange land into homeland and poverty turns a native place into a strange land. ↗

— Hazrat Ali ibn Abu-Talib

#inspirational

There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all. ↗