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We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes upon the horizon and once we have attached ourselves to that star we must keep our eyes on it and our hands upon the plow. It is the consistency of the pursuit of the highest possible vision that you can find in front of you that gives you the constancy, that gives you the encouragement, that gives you the way to understand where you are and why it's important for you to do what you can do.


Ossie Davis


#inspirational

You Americans are a very singular people," he later recalled to one of his friends. "I went with my automaton all over my own country—the Germans wondered and said nothing. In France they exclaimed, Magnifique! Merveilleux! Superbe! The English set themselves to prove—one that it could be, and another that it could not be, a mere mechanism acting without a man inside. But I had not been long in your country, before a Yankee came to see me and said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like another thing like that? I can make you one for five hundred dollars.' I laughed at his proposition. A few months afterwards, the same Yankee came to see me again, and this time he said, 'Mr Maelzel, would you like to buy another thing like that? I have one already made for you.


Tom Standage


#automata #conduct #life

I believe that life is a very individual path, and that we have to live it according to our own destiny and through our own eyes. Half the journey is groping around in the dark. Every lesson you learn, it’s vital that you teach yourself as much as possible. Someone very wise once said that, in an ideal world, there would only be guides on the side, not sages on the stage. We would, in my opinion, need a time of not-knowing, a time of confusion that leads to wisdom, before we’re really ready to be “retrieved”.


Jennifer DeLucy


#inspirational

All good things originate with the Creator God, he'd been taught, and the Song of Life was no exception.


Sandi Layne


#historical-fiction #irish-warrior #supernatural #life

In Galapagos, as elsewhere, things of the mind, including intellectual ramifications from evolutionary theory, and things of the spirit, like the feeling one gets from a Queen Anne’s lace of stars in the moonless Galapagean sky, struggle toward accommodation with an elementary desire for material comfort…because so many regard this archipelago as preeminently a terrain of the mind and spirit, a locus of biological thought and psychological rejuvenation. The sheer strength of Darwin’s insight into the development of biological life gently urges a visitor to be more than usually observant here- to notice, say, that while the thirteen Galapagean finches are all roughly the same hue, it is possible to separate them according to marked differences in the shapes of their bills and feeding habits.


Barry Lopez


#evolution #mystery #nature #spirit #wisdom

We will never known what opportunities we may have missed in life by showing up tight-fisted. It is hard to receive anything if we don't open our hands to give.


Bruna Martinuzzi


#generosit #mensch #life

My love life couldn't be more nonexistent if Julius was all all-girls' boarding school with a moat full of alligators around it.


Flynn Meaney


#love #romance #teen #teenage-love #ya

Ahora miraba el mundo como algo remoto, con lo que yo no tenía nada que ver y de lo que nada esperaba, y de hecho nada deseaba: en pocas palabras, no tenía nada que ver con ese mundo, y difícilmente algún día tendría que ver algo con él; por tanto, pensé que así debía de verse después de la muerte.


Daniel Defoe


#philosophy-of-life #inspirational

Stop categorizing and labeling! This is your way to avoid the unknown but brings the risk to avoid the new!


Rossana Condoleo


#inspirational-quotes #leadership-development #life-coaching #narrowmindedness #inspirational

Sometimes in this life, only one or two opportunities are put before us and we must seize them no matter the risk.


Andre Dubus III


#inspirational #lessons-in-life #life #motivational #opportunity






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