#iona

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#overcoming-obstacles #motivational

Suicide is a form of murder - premeditated murder. It isn't something you do the first time you think of doing it. It takes getting used to. And you need the means, the opportunity, the motive. A successful suicide demands good organization and a cool head, both of which are usually incompatible with the suicidal state of mind. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#motivational

Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Picture all experts as if they were mammals. Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence. Suspect your own motives, and all excuses. Do not live for others any more than you would expect others to live for you. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#science #motivational

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. ↗

— John Burroughs

#hope #motivational #motivational

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#success #motivational

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#motivation #teaching #motivational

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#media #postmodern #power #science-fiction #motivational

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#reflective #motivational

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ↗

— Bruce Lee

#motivational #motivational