#phil

Time is what keeps things from happening all at once. ↗

— Ann Brashares

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Make sure your subconscious knows you love it by stroking it until it purrs. ↗

— Teresa Sue McAdams

#motivational #personal-growth #philosophy #self-discovery #inspirational

Were knowledge all, what were our need To thrill and faint and sweetly bleed? ↗

— Christopher Brennan

#love #philosophical #poetry #inspirational

My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#inspirational #philosophy #science #inspirational

The main thing is the YOU beneath the clothes and skin--the ability to do, the will to conquer, the determination to understand and know this great, wonderful, curious world. ↗

— W.E.B. Du Bois

#humanity #inspirational #philosophy #sprituality #inspirational

Deities are invented by fallible and finite beings in the hope and desire to create immortal perfection; unfortunately, such deities only reflect their creators and inspire their followers to similar imperfections. ↗

— L.E. Modesitt Jr.

#religion #skepticism #inspirational

Il n'y a de réalité que dans l'action. (There is no reality except in action.) ↗

— Jean-Paul Sartre

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute. ↗

— Aberjhani

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As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution. Probably I should not consciously and deliberately forsake my particular calling to do the good which society demands of me, to save the universe from annihilation; and I believe that a like but infinitely greater steadfastness elsewhere is all that now preserves it. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Trying is something we do when we think we can’t do something. Even if your doing is not as perfect as you would like, decide to do it, and you will. -- Lady Nimrod of Buckmore in The Princelings and the Lost City ↗

— Jemima Pett

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