#now

You read and write and sing and experience, thinking that one day these things will build the character you admire to live as. You love and lose and bleed best you can, to the extreme, hoping that one day the world will read you like the poem you want to be. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#changing #growing-up #growth #journey #leaving

If you want somebody to change so much, what is it that you love about that person ? ↗

— Yasmin Ahmad

#change #film #film-director #love #malay

How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders. ↗

— Mikhail Naimy

#inspirational #self-knowledge #inspirational

The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness is contained in his words; yet the study of his words will not disclose his inspiration. God reveals himself in creation; but scrutinize creation as minutely as you wish, you will not find God, any more than you will find the soul through careful examination of your body. ↗

— Anthony de Mello

#god #knowledge #soul #inspirational

Knowledge is like an endless resource; a well of water that satisfies the innate thirst of the growing human soul. Therefore never stop learning... because the day you do, you will also stop maturing. ↗

— Chidi Okonkwo

#inspirational-quotes #knowledge #sci-fi #science #science-fiction

Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#men

Coincidences give you opportunities to look more deeply into your existence. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #opportunities #opportunity #synchronicity

For he or she that harbours no fear has never truly loved anything. You can only measure true love by the thought and fear of its loss. ↗

— Chris Jirika

#feelings-of-weakness #motivational-inspirational #inspirational

The thirst for knowledge is like a piece of ass you know you shouldn't chase; in the end, you chase it just the same. ↗

— George Pelecanos

#truth #men

Thus we have on stage two men, each of whom knows nothing of what he believes the other knows, and to deceive each other reciprocally both speak in allusions, each of the two hoping (in vain) that the other holds the key to his puzzle. ↗

— Umberto Eco

#games #knowledge #truth #men