#iona

The right thing to do and the hard thing to do are usually the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#doing-right #life #motivational #responsibility #life

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning. ↗

— Silvana De Mari

#death

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#death

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#inspirational #life #mottos #inspirational

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkin? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#inspirational #life #tolkien #freedom

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay. ↗

— Antonio Banderas

#anymore #arrived #couple #everything #fashionable

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive. ↗

— Merce Cardus

#kindness #inspirational

If the painter wishes to see beauties that charm him, it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, ridiculous, or truly pitiable, he is lord and God thereof. ↗

— Leonardo da Vinci

#beauty #creativity #motivational #art

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#inspirational #religious #art

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beauty #inspirational #art