#ira

Ramadi’s sky was generously filled with stars. Celestial ornaments set against a banner of a deep blue velvet sky. It was a place where hell, death, and heaven were so clear and the closest I’ve felt to all three in my life. ↗

— M.B. Wilmot

#heaven #hell #iraq #iraq-war #ramadi

No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters. ↗

— Christopher Healy

#wisdom #change

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad. ↗

— Robert Walser

#inspirational

If they give you ruled paper, right the other way. ↗

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

#inspirational

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#philosophy #courage

Birthday calls death close. ↗

— Abhinandan Kumar

#inspirational #life #truth #death

Sure, cried the tenant men, but it's our land. We measured it and broke it up. We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it. Even if it's no good, it's still ours. That's what makes it ours-being born on it, working it, dying on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#land #life-and-death #tenants #death

My Message to you all is of Hope, Courage and confidence. ↗

— Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah

#courage #inspirational #courage

Love is the most difficult and dangerous form of courage. Courage is the most desperate, admirable and noble kind of love. ↗

— Delmore Schwartz

#courage #dangerous #desperate #difficult #form

Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#life #literature #philosophy #writing #death