#nit

Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator. The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence, the more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man. ↗

— Aberjhani

#agape-love #community #existence #history #human-nature

Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#circle #infinite #life #motion #life

I remind you that no man who makes disparaging remarks concerning those of another race can consider himself a true disciple of Christ," said President Hinckley. "How can any man holding the Melchizedek Priesthood arrogantly assume that he is eligible for the priesthood whereas another who lives a righteous life but whose skin is of a different color, is ineligible? ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#life

They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

#being #hesse #life #siddhartha #unity

Seems to me that there is a fine line between insanity and dedication…I call that line commitment ↗

— Jeremy Aldana

#dedication #insanity #life #life

If you have to ask if you’ve done enough, you haven’t. Each day brings with it the opportunity to do more than you did yesterday. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#motivational #opportunity #success #life

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#humanity #life #mankind #life

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell; ↗

— Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#regret #life

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #vanity #witty #life

The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs. ↗

— Tony Kushner

#life