#nspirational

[P]eople need to use their intelligence to evaluate what they find to be true and untrue in the Bible. This is how we need to live life generally. Everything we hear and see we need to evaluate—whether the inspiring writings of the Bible or the inspiring writings of Shakespeare, Dostoevsky, or George Eliot, of Ghandi, Desmond Tutu, or the Dalai Lama. ↗

— Bart D. Ehrman

#intelligence #life #literature #religion #inspirational

I wanted to change the world, now I hope the world doesn't change me. ↗

— Ray Mileur

#change

...on doit se débarrasser de ce qui nous encombre. Fais le ménage. Elimine l'inutile... ↗

— Jean-Michel Guenassia

#attitude

Aging is not just decay, you know. It’s growth. It’s more than the negative that you’re going to die, it’s also the positive, that you understand going to die, and you live a better life because of it. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#life-lessons #age

The funny thing about an impossibility is that it tends to be a magnet for those who would prove it otherwise. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#dreams #fortitude #goals #impossible #inspirational

It's disturbing how fast weeds take root in my garden of worthiness. They're so hard to pull. And grow back so easily. ↗

— Wendelin Van Draanen

#dreams

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other. ↗

— Mark Hopkins

#activity #affection #any #appropriate #blessedness

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #beauty

I was once afraid of people saying, “Who does she think she is?” Now I have the courage to stand and say, “This is who I am. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#courage

Mortals always want something more- they wish for money, but what they're really after is to be carefree. Power when what they really want is control. Beauty when they want love. Sometimes they know it, sometimes they don't ↗

— Jackson Pearce

#life #wishes #beauty