#ions

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) ↗

— John Muir

#environment #inspirational #interdependency #life #marvel

Do not be concerned with how others treat you. Be only concerned with how you treat others. ↗

— Julia Heywood

#philosophical-quotations #spiritual-quotes #spiritual-wisdom #inspirational

Be genuinely interested in everyone you meet and everyone you meet will be genuinely interested in you ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#being-genuine #building-relationships #inspirational-quotes #making-friends #meeting-people

Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius, wit, or knowledge of the world. Never was life so pinched and narrow. The one problem in the mind of the writer … is marriageableness. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#jane-austen #relationships #marriage

But in that moment when my brother took the field, all that washed away, and everyone was proud... I looked up at my dad, and he was smiling. I looked at my mom, and she was smiling even though she was nervous about my brother getting hurt, which was strange because it was a VCR tape of an old game, and she knew he didn't get hurt. ↗

— Stephen Chbosky

#inspirational #family

In the long run men only hit what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#goals #inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds. ↗

— Clyde Dsouza

#life-lessons #life-philosophy #inspirational

I don't write poems to melt your heart. I write them, so our hearts can melt together. ↗

— Subhan Zein

#literature #love #poetry #relationship #spiritual-poetry

Time has its revenges, but revenge seems so often sour. Wouldn’t we all do better not trying to understand, accepting the fact that no human being will ever understand another, not a wife with a husband, nor a parent a child? Perhaps that’s why men have invented God – a being capable of understanding. ↗

— Graham Greene

#men

When a man I like touches my arm or my hair, I want to know if he'll touch the center of me, and whatever I learned in school--I went to school for a long time--I seem to believe that my center can be reached best with the tip of a penis.... ↗

— Alice Mattison

#men