#life

The way black women say "girl" can be magical. Frankly, I have no solid beliefs about the survival of consciousness after physical death. But if it's going to happen I know what I want to see after my trek toward the light. I want to see a black woman who will smile and say, "Girl.... ↗

— Abigail Padgett

#black-women #death #life-after-death #woman #death

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully. ↗

— Richard Bach

#encouragement #inspiration #life #morality #selfishness

But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations that ever was on earth--do not want security, egoistic or materialistic. Why, it never occurs to them. "Be not anxious for the morrow," and "which of you being anxious can add one cubit to his stature?" So they dare to be idle, i.e. not to be pressed and duty-driven all the time. They dare to love people even when they are very bad, and they dare not to try and dominate others to show them what they must do for their own good. ↗

— Brenda Ueland

#art #creativity #freedom #love #peace

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#again #almost #been #career #failed

How would your life be different if…You walked away from gossip and verbal defamation? Let today be the day…You speak only the good you know of other people and encourage others to do the same. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#friends #gossip #inspirational #life #motivational

You're too young to decide to live forever. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#philosophy-of-life #inspirational

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ↗

— Helen Keller

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When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another girl better, and whether they're going to ask you to something or other. It's a strain. ↗

— Maud Hart Lovelace

#true-to-life #humor

Goals are your destinations in life; objectives are the stops along the way. ↗

— Gerard de Marigny

#inspirational #inspirational

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #life #patterns #inspirational