#our

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. ↗

— Saint Augustine

#gospel #gospels #like #reject #you

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#ignorant #lazy #more #none #perhaps

You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. ↗

— Paul Auster

#ground #put #sky #touched #until

The champagne had been donated by one of Gus's doctors - Gus being the kind of person who inspires doctors to give their best bottles of champagne to children. ↗

— John Green

#memories #sadness #inspirational

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy “one word” Zen. When asked “What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?” he replied: “An appropriate statement.” On another occasion, he answered: “Cake.” I admired his directness. ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#humour #inspirational #zen #inspirational

Leadership requires the courage to make decisions that will benefit the next generation. ↗

— Alan Autry

#courage #decisions #generation #leadership #make

As costly as it was in the lives of our men and women in uniform, in military assets, and in esteem and pride, Pearl Harbor was a watershed moment for America. ↗

— Joe Baca

#assets #costly #esteem #harbor #lives

The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system. ↗

— Joe Baca

#at-risk #chance #children #educational #fair

I didn't wait for Luck. I tore after it with a truck. ↗

— A.A. Bell

#inspirational #luck #sci-fi-humour-comedy #science-fiction #truck

Romantic Egoist What I find really sad is... his smiles, his kindness... are inspired by a love potion and they don't really mean anything! ↗

— Bisco Hatori

#ouran #potion #special-guy #inspirational