#pat

From where we lived, to practise in St Louis was an hour-and-a-half drive each way, so that took a lot of the time. So really, our lives just took different paths. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#drive #each #just #lived #lives

Oh the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. ↗

— Dr. Seuss

#inspirational #life #self-determination #self-reliance #inspirational

Homo sum: humani nil a me alienum puto. I am human: nothing human is alien to me. ↗

— Terentius

#empathy #inspirational #inspirational

If I look at the mass I will never act. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#apathy #genocide #helplessness #inspirational #power

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#imagination #inspirational #writing #imagination

I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had the last drunken throat, that Morrison had the last enlightened mind. ↗

— Patti Smith

#inspiration #janis-joplin #jim-morrison #music #originality

I felt ashamed for having judged him so harshly without knowing the real boy. His one offense against me―goaded by Charlie’s bullying character―was easy to forgive. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#judging #kindness #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sympathy

It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves? ↗

— Russell Brand

#drug-addiction #family #sympathy #family

The pattern of the narrative never of necessity wants to end, it never has to. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#narrative #necessity #never #pattern #wants

Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its won unhurried pace. ↗

— Brian L. Weiss

#patience #soul #inspirational