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The greater puzzle of universal wisdom and beauty that we have strived to honor through our work includes the profound legacies of world artistic and spiritual traditions, the innate integrity of human communities where people seek to live in social harmony, and that regenerative stream of life sustained upon the earth itself as it spins through the cosmos to the music of the spheres. ↗

— Luther E. Vann

#art #art-books #beauty #communities #creativity

Your mind can be either your prison or your palace. What you make it is yours to decide ↗

— Bernard Kelvin Clive

#mind #thought-provoking #dreams

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#challenges #failure #failures #inspirational #perseverance

If there is no door to your dream, create one. ↗

— E'yen A. Gardner

#inspirational #dreams

Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#death #goodness #help #inspirational #death

Death is the reward for living ↗

— Sylvia Browne

#inspirational #peace #spiritual #death

She laughs an honest laugh... one that puts the fakes on edge and makes them dream of being better. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-moments #laughter #womens-inspirational #dreams

Don't nourish your fears more than you nourish your hopes. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#fears #happiness #hopes #inspirational #life

What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes. ↗