#philosophy

You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#wisdom #life

Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I’ve said before, bugs in amber. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

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The moment you stop trying to become a better person, is the moment you start to become worse than what you already are. ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#philosophy #philosophy-of-life #philosophy-of-people #life

What can a soldier do when mercy is treason, and he is alone in it? ↗

— Laini Taylor

#mercy #philosophy #war #life

The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#evolution #life #origin-of-life #perspective #philosophy

Of course there is no formula for success, except perhaps an unconditional acceptance of life, and what it brings ↗

— Arthur Rubinstein

#life

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are? ↗

— Bill Watterson

#life

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart’s desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— Socrates

#psychology #relationships #life

Dacă omul va uita cu desăvârşire că există moarte, că există un sfârşit, riscăm să ne întoarcem la maimuţe. Explicaţia este simplă: omul activ, omul creator, este excitat mai ales de ideea că într-o zi se va termina totul, că va avea un sfârşit, o odihnă definitivă. Cultivă la maximum conştiinţa acestui sfârşit, şi vei obţine de la oameni cele mai extraordinare eforturi. Cine ştie asta incontinuu este în stare să ridice munţii, este în stare de cele mai crâncene libertăţi, de cele mai curajoase acte. ↗

— Mircea Eliade

#life

Patience is the only way you can endure the gray periods. ↗

— Teri Hatcher

#inspirational #motivation #philosophy #inspirational