#iri

We had some major successes and we did so because the country embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental policy and energy policy in this country. ↗

— Jay Inslee

#concept #country #day #did #earth

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#diversity #interests #life #light #matter

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#soul #spiritual-growth #change

I love you. Remember. They cannot take it ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#love #love

Sometimes I think maybe they were right all along, the people on the other side in Zombieland. Maybe it would be better if we didn't love. If we didn't lose either. If we didn't get our hearts stomped on, shattered: if we didn't have to patch and repatch until we're like Frankenstein monsters, all sewn together and bound up by who knows what. If we could just float along, like snow. But how could anyone who's ever seen a summer - big explosions of green and skies lit up electric with splashy sunsets, a riot of flowers and wind that smells like honey - pick the snow? ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium- #love

Knock, And He'll open the door Vanish, And He'll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He'll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He'll turn you into everything. ↗

— Rumi

#religion #spirituality #religion

Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#words

In the end of five years I made supplication to the king to go out of this land, desiring to see my poor wife and children according to conscience and nature. ↗

— William Adams

#children #conscience #desiring #end #five

Greatness is a spiritual condition. ↗

— Matthew Arnold

#greatness #spiritual

We have been filled with grief as we have witnessed the decline of the North American Church that was once filled with missionary zeal and yet now seems determined to bury itself in a deadly embrace with the spirit of the age. ↗

— Peter Akinola

#american #been #bury #church #deadly