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My life should be unique; it should be an alms, a battle, a conquest, a medicine. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#battle #conquest #honest #life #living

In Paris and London he had seen nothing to make a return to life worth while; in Washington he saw plenty of reasons for staying dead. ↗

— Henry Adams

#washington #education

A winner is not someone who wins. It's someone who tries and isn't afraid to lose. ↗

— Nusrat Sultana

#characters #confidence #hope #inspirational #life

L ies I gnorant people F akes E go... That's life. ↗

— Brandiee Guillen

#life

It goes so fast, he thought, they don't tell you that, how fast it goes... ↗

— S.E. Hinton

#classic #dark #emotional #life #mental-hospital

We don't think a sustainable society need be stagnant, boring, uniform, or rigid. It need not be, and probably could not be, centrally controlled or authoritarian. It could be a world that has the time, the resources, and the will to correct its mistakes, to innovate, to preserve the fertility of its planetary ecosystems. It could focus on mindfully increasing quality of life rather than on mindlessly expanding material consumption and the physical capital stock. ↗

— Donella H. Meadows

#society #sustainability #life

Interest and enthusiasm are the wellspring of continually evolving community life: they create bonds which unite us whether we are young or old, nearby or far from each other; they allow human warmth and love to be the formative forces in personal and community life and striving. ↗

— Henning Hansmann

#community #enthusiasm #interest #education

The radicals assumed that acting was more important than speaking. Talking and writing books, Winstanley insisted, is 'all nothing and must die; for action is the life of all, and if thou dost not act, thou dost nothing.' It is a thought worth pondering by those who read books about the seventeenth-century radicals, no less than by those who write them. Were you doers or talkers only? Bunyan asked his generation. What canst thou say? ↗

— Christopher Hill

#life

Because love was not the answer to every question. Because real love meant sacrifice. Sometimes love means letting go. ↗

— Melissa de la Cruz

#love #sacrifice #truth #life

Then the shit hit the fan. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#economics #life