#phil

... Experiencing deep sadness can, sometimes, heighten your ability to feel joy. ↗

— Markéta Irglová

#inspirational #joy #philosophy #sad #sadness

You're too young to decide to live forever. ↗

— Maxine Hong Kingston

#philosophy-of-life #inspirational

Even the brightest magnesium flare can do little against such dark except blind the eyes of the one holding it. Thus one craves what by seeing one has in fact not seen. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#inspirational #philosophical-reflection #inspirational

Genius is measured not by static volume but by kinetic vision. ↗

— Rich DiSilvio

#philosophy #inspirational

For me, writing is immortality. It is wisdom. It is never-ending. ↗

— Alecia Stone

#philosophy #reality #inspirational

It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity. ↗

— William Coperthwaite

#philosophical #spiritual #inspirational

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells. ↗

— David Self

#philosophy #science #inspirational

Flame is the lamp; rest is borrowed. ↗

— R.N. Prasher

#philosophical #inspirational

A life devoted to seeking pleasure, is a life committed to being discontent. ↗

— David Guerrero

#inspirational #philosophy #truth #inspirational

When we merely follow another, we take a potentially creative mind out of service-our own. ↗

— William Coperthwaite

#philosophical #inspirational