#iv

The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone. ↗

— Rumi

#living #inspirational

We will not let terrorists change our way of life; we will not live in fear; and we will not undermine the civil liberties that characterize our Democracy. ↗

— Adam Schiff

#characterize #civil #civil liberties #democracy #fear

While the government is "studying" and funding and organizing its Big Thought, nothing is being done. But the citizen who is willing to Think Little, and, accepting the discipline of that, to go ahead on his own, is already solving the problem. A man who is trying to live as a neighbor to his neighbors will have a lively and practical understanding of the work of peace and brotherhood, and let there be no mistake about it - he is doing that work... A man who is willing to undertake the discipline and the difficulty of mending his own ways is worth more to the conservation movement than a hundred who are insisting merely that the government and the industries mend their ways. (pg.87, "Think Little") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#discipline #government #nature #policy #art

People said that video games were bad because they made you numb to death, made you register entrails splattering across a screen as a sign of success. In that moment, Val thought that the real problem with games was that the player was suppossed to try everything. If there was a cave, you went in it. If there was a mysterious stranger, you talked to him. If there was a map, you followed it. But in games, you had a hundred million billion lives and Val only had this one. ↗

— Holly Black

#life #lives #death

But if I'm it, the last of my kind, the last page of human history, like hell I'm going to let the story end this way. I may be the last one, but I am the one still standing. I am the one turning to face the faceless hunter in the woods on an abandoned highway. I am the one not running but facing. Because if I am the last one, then I am humanity. And if this is humanity's last war, then I am the battlefield. ↗

— Rick Yancey

#human #humanity #inspirational #powerful #survivor

It is foolish to tear one’s hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#fear-and-loathing #grief #inspirational #sorrow #inspirational

A lot of the stories are internal. They leak it to me wanting to get attention, wanting to get that headline. More times than not, I will not give it to them. ↗

— Matt Drudge

#get #give #headline #i #internal

Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy! ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#cakes #happiness #inspirational #inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes

Fueled by my inspiration, I ran across the room to steal the cup of coffee the bookshelf had taken prisoner. Lapping the black watery brew like a hyena, I tossed the empty cup aside. I then returned to the chair to continue my divine act of creation. Hot blood swished in my head as my mighty pen stole across the page. ↗

— Roman Payne

#artists #artists-life #coffee #creation #creativity

Don't wait for your ship to come in, swim out to it. ↗

— Cathy Hopkins

#initiative #inspirational #inspirational