#philosophical

Some people remember the sixties better than others do. Some weren't even there, some who were there were not really there, and some who were not really there were "really there". ↗

— Tom Hays

#humor #inspirational #philosophical #imagination

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You? ↗

— Qur'an

#philosophical-musings #qur-an #religious #inspirational

No matter how far you have gone down the road its never too late to stop and reinvent yourself ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational #motivational-inspirational #motivational-quotes #philosophical #philosophical-musings

Within us all are sages, warriors and fools; we more often that not choose the fools ↗

— rassool jibraeel snyman

#motivational-inspirational #motivational-quotes #philosophical-musings #philosophy #philosophy-of-life

Oh, gentlemen, perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything. Granted, granted I'm a babbler, a harmless, irksome babbler, as we all are. But what's to be done if the sole and express purpose of every intelligent man is babble--that is, a deliberate pouring from empty into void. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#meaning-of-life #philosophical-musings #searching #thinking #intelligence

Deep down, all the while, she was waiting for something to happen. Like a sailor in distress, she kept casting desperate glances over the solitary waster of her life, seeking some white sail in the distant mists of the horizon. She had no idea by what wind it would reach her, toward what shore it would bear her, or what kind of craft it would be – tiny boat or towering vessel, laden with heartbreaks or filled to the gunwhales with rapture. But every morning when she awoke she hoped that today would be the day; she listened for every sound, gave sudden starts, was surprised when nothing happened; and then, sadder with each succeeding sunset, she longed for tomorrow. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#life

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision? ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#life

The world's a headmaster who works on your faults. I don't mean in a mystical or Jesus way. More how you'll keep tripping over a hidden step, over and over, till you finally understand: Watch out for that step! Everything that's wrong with us, if we're too selfish or too Yessir, Nosir, Three bags full sir or too anything, that's a hidden step. Either you suffer the consequences of not noticing your fault forever or, one day, you do notice it, and fix it. Joke is, once you get it into your brain about that hidden step and think, Hey, life isn't such a shithouse after all again, then BUMP! Down you go, a whole new flight of hidden steps. There are always more. ↗

— David Mitchell

#inspirational #philosophical #thoughtful #inspirational

Yesterday I thought about why I felt the need to get up at exactly the same time as the day before and do everything I did the day before. Why? What compels any of us to do the things we do when deep down a part of us just wants to break free from it all? ↗

— J.A. Redmerski

#philosophical #life

There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of the kitchen table. ↗

— E.A. Bucchianeri

#humility #kitchen #kitchen-table #parliament #philosophical