#iona

It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone. ↗

— David Baldacci

#life-lesson #inspirational

The national interest cannot be defined as a common interest of the industrial, commercial, and financial companies of a country, because there is no such common interest; nor can it be defined as the life, liberty, and well-being of the citizens, because they are continually being adjured to sacrifice their well-being, their liberty, and their lives to the national interest. In the end a study of modern history leads to the conclusion that the national interest of every State consists in its capacity to make war. ↗

— Simone Weil

#national-interest #war #life

If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. ↗

— Sheldon B. Kopp

#hate #inspirational #knowledge #life #love

That was what I wanted, but I don't need it to be gone. I can love you and I can love life and bear the pain all at the same time. I think the pain might even make the rest better, the way a good setting can make a diamond look better. ↗

— Stephen King

#love #pain #inspirational

Most days I juggle everything quite well, on the other days there's always red wine. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#life-and-living #motivational-quotes #wine #inspirational

Don't worry, life is good despite everything! ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#inspirational

Don't die on me," she whispered when the clock struck midnight and he still had not moved. "It's only a little shoulder wound. Goddess, George-don't die on me." His eyes flickered open and he smiled. "I didn't know you cared," he whispered. "And why insult me? I won't die for a wee nick like this; I've had worse in my day." Alanna wiped her wet cheeks. "Of course I care, you unprincipled pickpocket!" she whispered. "Of course I care. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#insult

Only when you have a conscious working knowledge of these (Universal)laws are you able to be the Deliberate Creator of your own life experience, ↗

— Esther Hicks

#experience

It is our action that determines the viability of our dream. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#dream #goals #motivational #success #truth

An author cannot of course remain wholly unaffected by his experience, but the ways in which a story-germ uses the soil of experience are extremely complex, and attempts to define the process are at best guesses from evidence that is inadequate and ambiguous. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#tolkien #experience