#iona

As the sun went down, I saw a solitary boatman disporting on the smooth lake. The falling dews seemed to strain and purify the air, and I was soothed with an infinite stillness. I got the world, as it were, by the nape of the neck, and held it under in the tide of its own events, till it was drowned, and then I let it go down stream like a dead dog. Vast hollow chambers of silence stretched away on every side, and my being expanded in proportion, and filled them. Then first could I appreciate sound, and find it musical. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#nature #spirituality #inspirational

Who can call a man dead whose words still hush and whose sentiments move? ↗

— Clive Barker

#inspirational

You Can Not Destroy Evil With Evil,Only With Love. ↗

— Olga Romanov

#inspirational

Don't call me a saint. I don't want to be dismissed so easily. ↗

— Dorothy Day

#religious #sainthood #inspirational

Every bit of life comes with instructions, when we are attentive enough to notice. ↗

— Karen Maezen Miller

#life #inspirational

We can not change the whole world at a go but it takes YOU to change your family, a family to change a community, a community to change a town, a town to change a region, a region to change a country, a country to change a continent, a continent to change the world, the world to change the universe. So you see, it begins with YOU. Just say YES and 90 percent of the work is done. ↗

— Philip Amanor

#motivational #change

I've never met a person, I don't care what his condition, in whom I could not see possibilities. I don't care how much a man may consider himself a failure. I believe in him, for he can change the thing that is wrong in his life any time he is ready and prepared to do it. Whenever he develops the desire he can take away from his life the thing that is defeating it. The capacity for reformation and change lies within. ↗

— Preston Bradley

#change

I smell heaven, the moment your voice makes its way from my ears to heart, it just happens, everytime. I would be as mad for you as you want me to be. I swear. Maybe, I am not privileged enough to afford the luxury of having you..., but still I would try. I would keep on trying...even if you are indifferent to it, even if my heart forgets to beat... ↗

— Ankur Kumar Shah

#beat #crazy #enough #forgets #happens

My mama taught me the most important lesson of all: "Sometimes you don't know why things happen until later." She still gets me through the dark days even to this day, because of that one day we sat in the grass, with my heart broken to smithereens, and she told me that one simple phrase that changed my life. ↗

— Jennifer Megan Varnadore

#change

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy. ↗

— Erica Goros

#hope #inspirational #inspitation #life #life-lessons