#iona

one is good but ten is better. together is a powerful, beautiful, and peaceful. ↗

— B. Armynanta

#life-lessons #peace-movement #beauty

Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. ↗

— William Morris

#beauty

And whatever your labors and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace in your soul. With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

#beauty

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife. ↗

— Zora Neale Hurston

#business

How would your life be different if...you had a plan of action towards your goals? Let today be the day...You stop allowing your days to be stolen by busy nothingness and take calculated steps towards your goals. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#goals #life #motivational #plan #success

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper. ↗

— Rachael Bermingham

#business #development #energy #growth #inspirational-quotes

To create a new business that makes money, and more significantly, employs others, and more significantly, gives a product to a customer that improves their life, is our greatest challenge, our greatest opportunity, and the greatest gift, far greater than any charity that we can give our fellow person. ↗

— Paul Zane Pilzer

#business

England and the English governing class never did call on this absurd deity of race until it seemed, for an instant, that they had no other god to call on… the truth of the whole matter is very simple. Nationality exists, and has nothing in the world to do with race. Nationality is a thing like a church or a secret society. It is the product of the human soul and will; it is a spiritual product. And there are men… who would think anything and do anything rather than admit anything could be a spiritual product. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#race #secret-society #spirituality #men

But to be perfectly frank, this childish idea that the author of a novel has some special insight into the characters in the novel...it's ridiculous. That novel was composed of scratches on a page, dear. The characters inhabiting it have no life outside of those scratches. What happened to them? They all ceased to exist the moment the novel ended. ↗

— John Green

#fiction #imagination #intentional-fallcy #ontology #art

To devote yourself to the creation and enjoyment of beauty, then, can be a serious business—not always necessarily a means of escaping reality, but sometimes a means of holding on to the real when everything is flaking away into… rhetoric and plot. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#beauty #inspirational #art