#ions

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. ↗

— Aberjhani

#life-lessons #love #peace #peacekeeping #philosophy

Fear doesn't shut you down, it wakes you up ↗

— Veronica Roth

#factions #hard-life #inspirational #society #inspirational

Let the love grow. Your mistake would be to rush it. Never allowing the seeds you've planted to grow, is all you'll be doing. Everything takes time. Nothing blooms overnight. If you want that man to stay in your life you must be the woman in the relationship. Men if you want that woman to stay, you must be the man in the relationship. Nothing just comes to you. If you want it, you have to try and even sacrifice. No pain, no gain. That's life, whether you accept it or not it's going to always stay the same. ↗

— Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#love #man #relationships #romance #woman

I was hoping that perhaps I could roll with you..." "You cannot roll with me," said the Big O, "but perhaps you can roll by yourself. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#relationships #self-confidence #inspirational

When a young person, even a gifted one, grows up without proximate living examples of what she may aspire to become--whether lawyer, scientist, artist, or leader in any realm--her goal remains abstract. Such models as appear in books or on the news, however inspiring or revered, are ultimately too remote to be real, let alone influential. But a role model in the flesh provides more than inspiration; his or her very existence is confirmation of possibilities one may have every reason to doubt, saying, 'Yes, someone like me can do this. ↗

— Sonia Sotomayor

#mentoring #occupations #role-models #success #inspirational

Every person is a star; it just depends upon how close you are to him, that you realize his true potential and power. ↗

— Rupali Rajopadhye Rotti

#relationship #inspirational

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness - And Wilderness is Paradise enow. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#companionship #life #love #paradise #poetry

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. ↗

— Hesketh Pearson

#never #only #quotations

All over the world there are enormous numbers of smart, even gifted, people who harbor a passion for science. But that passion is unrequited. Surveys suggest that some 95 percent of Americans are “scientifically illiterate.” That’s just the same fraction as those African Americans, almost all of them slaves, who were illiterate just before the Civil War—when severe penalties were in force for anyone who taught a slave to read. Of course there’s a degree of arbitrariness about any determination of illiteracy, whether it applies to language or to science. But anything like 95 percent illiteracy is extremely serious. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#literacy #science #social-conditions #education

A great deal of world politics is a fundamental struggle, but it is also a struggle that has to be waged intelligently. ↗

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

#world-politics #intelligence