#iona

I don't care how impossible it seems. ↗

— David Byrne

#david-byrne #humorous #inspirational #song #talking-heads

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ↗

— Barack Obama

#inspirational

But it seems to me that once you begin a gesture it's fatal not to go through with it. ↗

— John Updike

#inspirational

The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#love #profound #inspirational

Life is at its best when everything has fallen out of place, and you decide that you're going to fight to get them right, not when everything is going your way and everyone is praising you. ↗

— Thisuri Wanniarachchi

#happiness #hard-times #inspirational #life #inspirational

The way of the miracle-worker is to see all human behavior as one two things: either love, or a call for love. ↗

— Marianne Williamson

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Hope does not leave without being given permission. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#inspirational-life #percy-jackson #philosophy #the-last-olympian #inspirational

Just because you're in a situation, doesn't mean you have to be that situation. You're not the situation you're in! ↗

— K.M. Johnson

#life #motivational #wisdom #inspirational

A choir is made up of many voices, including yours and mine. If one by one all go silent then all that will be left are the soloists. Don’t let a loud few determine the nature of the sound. It makes for poor harmony and diminishes the song. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#chorus #choruses #cooperation #free #free-speech

Inspiration is what keeps us well. ↗

— James Redfield

#inspirational