#los

I make no claims. I have set down the facts; and the only warning advice or admonition I have to give is that any person who makes up his mind to try this method and things he isn't in for the hardest struggle of his life would do well not to try. This isn't frolic. It's a fight. ↗

— Samuel G. Blythe

#healthy #healthy-living #inspirational #weight-loss #inspirational

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#excellence #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth

With the possible exception of the higher reaches of pure mathematics or theoretical physics, one can scarcely imagine anything more inhuman than philosophy. Its worship of logic in all its cold, crystalline purity; its determination to stride the bleak and icy mountaintops of theory and abstraction: to be a philosopher is to be existentially deracinated. Philosophers should be offered condolences rather than encouragement. ↗

— Mark Rowlands

#imagination

No! Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try. ↗

— George Lucas

#inspirational #jedi #life #philosophy #star-wars

Take it easy, but take it. ↗

— Woody Guthrie

#philosophy #inspirational

Stop feeling sorry for yourself and you will be happy. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#philosophy #inspirational

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#ours #recover #tomorrow #win #win or lose

The inner fire is the most important thing mankind possesses. ↗

— Edith Södergran

#inspiration #philosophy #vitality #inspirational

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#inspiration #inspirational #knowledge #learning #philosophy

All paths are present, always... and we can but choose among them. ↗

— Jacqueline Carey

#life #philosophy #inspirational