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Life is a long lesson in humility. ↗

— James M. Barrie

#humility #lesson #life is a #long

My kitchen linoleum is so black and shiny that I waltz while I wait for the kettle to boil. This pleasure is for the old who live alone. ↗

— Florida Scott-Maxwell

#black #boil #i #kettle #kitchen

Given the ease with which health infuses life with meaning and purpose, it is shocking how swiftly illness steals away those certainties…Time unused and only endured still vanishes, as if time itself is starving, and each day is swallowed whole, leaving no crumbs, no memory, no trace at all. ↗

— Elisabeth Tova Bailey

#illness #inspirational #life #life-changing #meaning

White House and State Department foreign-policy experts are overwhelmingly directed towards military and diplomatic issues, not development issues. ↗

— Jeffrey Sachs

#development #diplomatic #directed #experts #house

Reality TV is sleazy, it is manipulative. It is as momentary as anything in popular culture. ↗

— Morley Safer

#culture #manipulative #momentary #popular #popular culture

In the range of music that we play - roughly 300 years' worth-there really are more similarities than differences. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#more #music #play #range #really

Writing is not a hobby. Collecting stamps or coins is a hobby. Writing is a calling. ↗

— Barbara Abercrombie

#writing-life #inspirational

If only you knew who you really were you would be fearless and love yourself with a grand passion! You are a unique shard of God, the Universe, the whole or whatever label you would like to call it. No one can take your place and without you endless synchronicity and evolution would not happen. You are so powerful that just by walking down the street you can change someone's life forever. ↗

— Michele Knight

#spirituality #synchronicity #change

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#inspirational #integrity #motivational #respect #respect-yourself

Today like yesterday and the day before that, I will strive to achieve what tomorrow and the next day and the day after that, I have tried! ↗

— Leslie Austin

#inspirational #writers-quotes #inspirational