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There’s no such thing as `one, true way’; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good — they’re the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren’t willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#inspirational #life-philosophy #truth #freedom

Just because people have the choice to do bad things doesn’t mean that He can’t use it for better and for good. I don’t want bad things to happen to people on earth, I don’t think that’s great but… The things that happened in my life I wouldn’t have chosen for myself but if that hadn’t happened to me I wouldn’t have one song for anybody to relate to it, it wouldn’t help anyone. ↗

— Lacey Mosley

#god #inspirational #knowledge #pain #philosophy

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace. ↗

— Chinua Achebe

#life-lessons #philosophy-of-life #inspirational

and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

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Fiction is a solution, the best solution, to the problem of existential solitude. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#writing-inspiration #writing-philosophy #inspirational

History. Language. Passion. Custom. All these things determine what men say, think, and do. These are the hidden puppet-strings from which all men hang. ↗

— R. Scott Bakker

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I only seem negative to the fortunate. That's because I show the less fortunate that they aren't less fortunate after all. ↗

— Criss Jami

#fortunate #fortune #happiness #inspirational #negativity

Try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting yourself an aim, a goal... an exalted and noble 'to this end.' Perish in pursuit of this and only this ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The nonpermanent appearance of happiness and distress, and their disappearance in due course, are like the appearance and disappearance of winter and summer seasons.They arise from sense perception,and one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed. ↗

— Anonymous

#life-philosophy #inspirational

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper. ↗

— James Carroll

#meditation #philosophy #relaxation #tranquility #inspirational