#mind

Many Sunnis, who are still stuck in the Saddam era mindset and believe Iraq belongs to them, are trying to prevent a new country from developing at all. ↗

— Brent Scowcroft

#belongs #country #developing #era #iraq

I'd always thought of myself as an open-minded person. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them. That's the part I still need to work on. ↗

— Kelley Armstrong

#maya-delaney #open-mindedness #inspirational

When it was her own doing, she was always tempted to skip a day, or just glance down, then get back to the ground. Kel had to force herself to keep her vow. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#inspirational #keladry-of-mindelan #squire #tamora-pierce #inspirational

And If our God is for us, then who could ever stop us, and if our God is with us, then what can stand against? ↗

— Chris Tomlin

#inspirational #reminder #inspirational

Seek and see all the marvels around you. You will get tired of looking at yourself alone, and that fatigue will make you deaf and blind to everything else. - Don Juan ↗

— Carlos Castaneda

#mindfulness #wisdom #inspirational

Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present. ↗

— Allan Lokos

#inspirational #meditation #mindfulness #inspirational

Life is a hell of a thing to happen to someone ↗

— David Rossi

#life

If you kill me, you kill yourself." [...] He only wanted to convey to Janegg the truth of ahimsa, which is that all beings were connected to each other in the deepest way and thus it was impossible to harm another without harming oneself. ↗

— David Zindell

#reminding #inspirational

I woke up!" he replied, eye twinkling in his haggard face, "and that's reason enough to be happy! ↗

— Ron Hall & Denver Moore

#inspiration #peace #peace-of-mind #inspirational

Obstacles are opportunities turned upside down...or prisons self-imposed. ↗

— Chriscinthia Blount

#inspirational #mind-body-spirit #obstacles #opportunities #self-help