#mortal

Long Distance training can be a positive & constructive form of selfishness. After all, once you're at the starting line, you're there by yourself. No one can run a single step for you. No one can jump in & help you. No one but you can make the decisions about what to do to keep going. It's all up to you. ↗

— John Bingham

#marathoning-for-mortals #running #inspirational

But they love each other. Isn't that what love means? That you're supposed to be there for the other person to turn to, no matter what? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clary-fray #love #marriage #the-mortal-instruments #love

We must not listen to those who advise us 'being men to think human thoughts, and being mortal to think mortal thoughts' but must put on immortality as much as possible and strain every nerve to live according to that best part of us, which, being small in bulk, yet much more in its power and honour surpasses all else. ↗

— Aristotle

#man #men

Yet some men say in many parts of England that King Arthur is not dead, but had by the will of our Lord Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall come again, and he shall win the holy cross. ↗

— Thomas Malory

#england #hope #immortality #king-arthur #matter-of-britain

The physical world we live in is just the beginning. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #metaphysical #paranormal #spirituality #supernatural

Hope is the last thing that dies. Maybe because hope is one of those dratted things that is truly, honestly, genuinely immortal. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#immortal #immortality #inspirational

The thinker dies, but his thoughts are beyond the reach of destruction. Men are mortal; but ideas are immortal. ↗

— Richard Adams

#destruction #dies #his #ideas #immortal

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do. ↗

— W. H. Auden

#geniuses #luckiest #mortals #most #must

The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality. ↗

— Tammy Baldwin

#health #infant #infant mortality #lower #mortality

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. ↗

— Susan Ertz

#afternoon #immortality #know #long #millions