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No matter how much falls on us, we keep plowing ahead. That's the only way to keep the roads clear. ↗

— Greg Kincaind

#endurance #inspirational #persistence #resilience #courage

To me, empathy and compassion are among the bravest of emotions ... and faith, the bravest of convictions. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#courage #empathy #faith #heroes #inspirational

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which,if you say it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree helping each other to one or the other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilites, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all of our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - These are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#art

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence. ↗

— Teresa R. Funke

#courage #inspiration #mistakes #world-war-ii #courage

Sometimes we bring to a struggle or cause the gifts we see most clearly, a courage, a strength, or a charm others have told us we have. But often we find more is asked of us than that, more than we intended or thought we possessed. We are asked to offer that which we thought dearest, to forgive what seemed unpardonable, to face what we feared the most and endure it. Sometimes we have to travel to the last step a path that was not of our own choosing. But I promise you this ... it will lead to a greater joy in the end. The difficulty is that the end is beyond our sight, it is a matter of faith, not of knowledge. ↗

— Anne Perry

#inspirational #courage

Good ideas stay with you until you eventually write the story. ↗

— Brian Keene

#inspirational #writers #writing #art

Have nuts and be nuts. ↗

— Criss Jami

#courage #crazy #dreams #funny #humor

They vilify us, the scoundrels do, when there is only this difference; they rob the poor under the cover of law, forsooth, and we plunder the rich under the protection of our own courage; had ye not better make one of us, than sneak after the arses of those villains for employment? ↗

— Samuel Bellamy

#anarchy #class #employment #piracy #pirates

In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be, by remaining what we are. ↗

— Max DePree

#leadership #art

You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know. ↗

— René Daumal

#art