#ours

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#capable #doing #done #feel #judge

Shine with all you have. When someone tries to blow you out, just take their oxygen and burn brighter. ↗

— Katelyn S. Irons

#inspirational #shine #stargirl #inspirational

There is only room in the lifeboat of your life for one, and you always choose yourself, and turn your parents into whatever it takes to keep you afloat. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#always #choose #into #keep #life

There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this. ↗

— Quico Canseco

#approaching #demeaning #giving #giving up #liberty

How many more of us are faking the facade? How many more of us are pretending to be something we're not? Even better, how many of us will have the courage to be ourselves regardless of what others think? ↗

— Katie McGarry

#courage #faking-it #stand-up-for-yourself #courage

In the midst of such indescribable splendor, I am faced both by my insignificance and the significance of choices I have and will make. We are all programmed, though we insist otherwise most times, to seek approval for our very existence, forsaking our peace of mind for what sits well with everyone's implicit or expressed consent, when our years, 20 or 93 declares in no uncertain terms that freedom to decide and steadfast courage to hold no one accountable for (the) ensuing bliss or sorrow but ourselves is the most fulfilling emancipation of all. ↗

— Ruby S. Bernardo

#courage

Since we humans have the better brain, isn't it our responsibility to protect our fellow creatures from, oddly enough, ourselves? ↗

— Joy Adamson

#brain #creatures #enough #fellow #fellow creatures

Think of the most discouraging thing that you are currently carrying or the biggest project you can’t seem to tackle. Forget about how it happened, forget about how you got there, just look at the clock, and before that number changes, do one little thing to make it better. After you do, enjoy your moment of victory, and then do it again. In less than the time it takes you to blink, the past will burden you no more. ↗

— Dan Pearce

#changing-ourselves #goals #our-pasts #overcoming-negativity #overcoming-obstacles

Full of beautiful grace so we steal their space, and death comes quickly. ↗

— Sara Quin

#beautiful-grace #death-comes-quickly #our-trees #sara-quin #steal

Discourse is not life; its time is not your time; in it, you will not be reconciled to death; you may have killed God beneath the weight of all that you have said; but don't imagine that, with all that you are saying you will make a man that will live longer than he. ↗

— Michel Foucault

#god #language #writing #death