#iona

If you don't write when you don't have time for it, you won't write when you do have time for it. ↗

— Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#human-nature #motivation #time #time-management #writing

...you’d be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical. ↗

— Dianna Hardy

#human-behaviour #human-nature #logic #making-sense-of-the-world #nonsense

When all that says 'it is good' has been debunked, what says 'I want' remains. (...) The Conditioners, therefore, must come to be motivated simply by their own pleasure. (...) My point is that those who stand outside all judgements of value cannot have any ground for preferring one of their own impulses to another except the emotional strength of that impulse. (...) I am very doubtful myself whether the benevolent impulses, stripped of that preference and encouragement which the Tao teaches us to give them and left to their merely natural strength and frequency as psychological events, will have much influence. I am very doubtful whether history shows us one example of a man who, having stepped outside traditional morality and attained power, has used that power benevolently. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#traditional-morality #values #motivational

All of us, whether vivisector or vegan, have been subject to mechanisms undercutting sympathy for animals. How long and to what extent we submit to these mechanisms is not a matter of rationality: to cut off our feelings and support animal exploitation is rational, given societal expectations and sanctions; but to assert our feelings and oppose animal exploitation is also rational, given the pain involved in losing our natural bonds with animals. So our task is not to pass judgment on others' rationality, but to speak honestly of the loneliness and isolation of anthropocentric society, and of the damage done to every person expected to hurt animals. ↗

— Brian Luke

#animal-rights #emotions #feminism #patriarchy #rationality

It should be noted, as with so many legends and popularly accepted truths created out of political motivation: There, in fact, is no evidence that the hundreds of murders historically attributed to the werewolves of Gévaudan were actually caused by wolves. As with all witchhunts, the endless battle against ignorance requires one to always keep an open mind and sharp wits when considering such rumors - especially the rumors we choose to enjoy. ↗

— Zeena Schreck

#animal-liberation #animal-rights #animal-stories #beatdom #environmentalism

others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers. ↗

— Ayi Kwei Armah

#inspirational

أن تحاول مرارا لا يعني أنك غير قادر على النجاح بل يعني أنك غير قابل بالفشل ↗

— ياسر حارب

#motivational

Passion is not a reaction to an external event. It is the left over emotions from the internal battles you have won that propels you forward. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#passion #motivational

إن من يُحب يُهدي ومن يُهدي يحب وخير هدية هو الحب ذاته، فهو البقاء بعد الرحيل وهو الحياة بعد الموت وهو الكلمة التي لا تحتاج إلى قاموس ↗

— ياسر حارب

#motivational

Self-belief, also called self-efficacy, is the kind of feeling you have when you have, like a Jedi, mastered a particular kind of skill and with its help have been able to achieve your set goals. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#confident #empowerment #jedi #motivational #self-confidence