#motivation

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: ‘To rise above little things’. ↗

— John Burroughs

#hope #motivational #motivational

And will you succeed? Yes indeed, yes indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed! ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#success #motivational

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#motivation #teaching #motivational

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#media #postmodern #power #science-fiction #motivational

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#reflective #motivational

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. ↗

— Bruce Lee

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Don't wish it were easier. Wish you were better. ↗

— Jim Rohn

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The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. ↗

— James Oppenheim

#determination #happiness #motivation #motivational

Just how destructive does a culinary preference have to be before we decide to eat something else? If contributing to the suffering of billions of animals that live miserable lives and (quite often) die in horrific ways isn't motivating, what would be? If being the number one contributor to the most serious threat facing the planet (global warming) isn't enough, what is? And if you are tempted to put off these questions of conscience, to say not now, then when? ↗

— Jonathan Safran Foer

#vegan #vegetarian #motivational