#ira

It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact. ↗

— Natsuki Takaya

#hope #inspirational #life #inspirational

I don't beg, it's beneath me ↗

— Jennifer A. Nielson

#inspirational

If your not living on the edge, your taking up way too much space! ↗

— Devin C. Hughes

#devin-c-hughes #inspirational

Hadst thou sought the whole earth over," said he, looking darkly at the clergyman, "there was no place so secret- no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me,- save on this very scaffold! ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#inspirational

The transfer is a monumental occasion as the Iraqi people take control of their government and their future and forge ahead with creating a society governed by the tenets of life, liberty and freedom. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#control #creating #forge #freedom #future

Yet the march toward freedom is not without its hazards or its casualties and the threats of violence aimed at Iraqis who participate in the election will be dealt with accordingly. ↗

— Jim Gerlach

#aimed #casualties #dealt #election #freedom

Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light. ↗

— Brené Brown

#courage #inspirational #light #love #vulnerability

Iraq is not about oil. ↗

— Bobby Ray Inman

#iraq #oil

All thinking men are atheists. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#inspirational #inspirational

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#inspirational