#nspirational

It's not what happens to us that molds us. It's what we do with what happens to us. ↗

— Anita Stansfield

#self-determination #inspirational

Those who travel to mountain-tops are half in love with themselves, and half in love with oblivion. ↗

— Robert Macfarlane

#arrogance #humility #inspirational #mountaineering #mountains

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid. ↗

— John Pfeiffer

#inspiration #technology #inspirational

Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#life #philosophy #truth #wisdom #inspirational

Not knowing a thing is not ignorance. Feigning knowledge you don't have can be--Sholto ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#inspirational

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#inspirational #travel #wicked #inspirational

Reading, conversation, environment, culture, heroes, mentors, nature – all are lottery tickets for creativity. Scratch away at them and you’ll find out how big a prize you’ve won. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#inspiration #inspirational

Life is like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free will. ↗

— Jawaharal Nehru

#inspires-me #inspirational

If I cannot give my children a perfect mother I can at least give them more of the one they've got--and make that one more loving. I will be available. I will take time to listen, time to play, time to be home when they arrive from school, time to counsel and encouerage. ↗

— Ruth Bell Graham

#inspirational

This instinctive repulsion which tradespeople inspire in men of sensitive feeling is one of the very rare consolations for being so impoverished which are given to those of us who don’t sell anything to anybody. ↗

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

#inspirational