#lit

They rode out along the fenceline and across the open pastureland. The leather creaked in the morning cold. They pushed the horses into a lope. The lights fell away behind them. They rode out on the high prairie where they slowed the horses to a walk and the stars swarmed around them out of the blackness. They heard somewhere in that tenantless night a bell that tolled and ceased where no bell was and they rode out on the round dais of the earth which alone was dark and no light to it and which carried their figures and bore them up into the swarming stars so that they rode not under but among them and they rode at once jaunty and circumspect, like thieves newly loosed in that dark electric, like young thieves in a glowing orchard, loosely jacketed against the cold and ten thousand worlds for the choosing. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#exhilaration #inspirational #possibilities #inspirational

A story once went the rounds of Israel to the effect that Ben-Gurion described me as 'the only man' in his cabinet. What amused me about is that he (or whoever invented the story) thought that this was the greatest compliment that could be paid to a woman. I very much doubt that any man would have been flattered if I had said about him that he was the only woman in the government! ↗

— Golda Meir

#humor #inspirational #political #humor

In a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen ↗

— Louis Brandeis

#inspirational #politics #inspirational

Evil does not exist; once you have crossed the threshold, all is good. Once in another world, you must hold your tongue. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#spirituality #inspirational

Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it. ↗

— John Henry Newman

#inspirational #responsibility #truth #inspirational

A great ancient poet was blind. A great classical composer was deaf. Many of us are dumb. What have we to show for it? ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#ability #able #talent #talents #inspirational

The seeds of greatness are sown in ordinary soil. ↗

— Leah Griffith

#inspiration #spirituality #inspirational

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. ↗

— Aberjhani

#life-lessons #love #peace #peacekeeping #philosophy

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#everything #little #much #perhaps #too

We must set aside our wishes and give heed to reality. Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then can we find peace in our choices. ↗

— Brandon Mull

#reality #truth #inspirational