#nspirational

When you reach for the stars, you are reaching for the farthest thing out there. When you reach deep into yourself, it is the same thing, but in the opposite direction. If you reach in both directions, you will have spanned the universe. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#aim-high #deep #effort #far-reaching #goal

One of the luckiest things that can happen to you in life is to have a happy childhood. ↗

— Agatha Christie

#inspirational

there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues. ↗

— Mario Puzo

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I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#christianity #inspirational #religion #inspirational

I think of myself as a bad writer with big ideas, but I'd rather be that than a big writer with bad ideas. ↗

— Michael Moorcock

#fantasy-genre #ideas #inspiration #popularity #self-deprication

Secangkir kopi yang dengan tenang menunggu kau minum itu tidak pernah mengusut kenapa kau bisa membedakan aromanya dari asap yang setiap hari kau hirup ketika berangkat dan pulang kerja di kota yang semakin tidak bisa mengerti kenapa mesti ada secangkir kopi yang tersedia di atas meja setiap pagi ↗

— Sapardi Djoko Damono

#inspirational

The best pace is a suicide pace, and today looks like a good day to die. ↗

— Steve Prefontaine

#inspirational

I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness. ↗

— C.G. Jung

#inspirational

I don't care how impossible it seems. ↗

— David Byrne

#david-byrne #humorous #inspirational #song #talking-heads

The American story has never been about things coming easy. It has been about rising to the moment when the moment is hard. About rejecting panicked division for purposeful unity. About seeing a mountaintop from the deepest valley. That is why we remember that some of the most famous words ever spoken by an American came from a president who took office in a time of turmoil: "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. ↗

— Barack Obama

#inspirational