#iona

We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing ↗

— Thucydides

#social-commentary #inspirational

Trying is always enough. ↗

— Patricia Briggs

#trying #inspirational

Life is good, and there's no reason to think it won't be--right up until the moment when everything explodes into a fireball of tiny, unrecognizable fragments, or it all goes skidding sideways, through the guardrail, over the embankment, and down the mountain. This will happen (and probably more than once). ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#inspirational #realistic #humor

People will promise you the moon, offer you the stars, but in the end, the only heavenly body you can truly count on is your on! ↗

— Linda Masemore Pirrung

#romantic-suspense #inspirational

The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scripture ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. ↗

— Noah Webster

#politics #religion #inspirational

Look no farther than your hand, Make a choice and take a stand. ↗

— Shannon Hale

#wisdom #inspirational

It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up... ↗

— Confucius

#philosophy #wisdom #inspirational

What do we any of us have but our illusions? And what do we ask of others but that we be allowed to keep them? ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

#observation #resignation #wisdom #inspirational

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us. ↗

— Anita Stansfield

#self-determination #inspirational

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#arrogance #humility #inspirational #mountaineering #mountains