#pi

The root of humanly caused evil is not man's animal nature, not territorial aggression, or innate selfishness, but our need to gain self-esteem, deny our mortality, and achieve a heroic self-image. Our desire for the best is the cause of the worst. ↗

— Sam Keen

#inspirational #philosophy #death

You might be a big fish in a little pond, Doesn't mean you've won 'Coz along may come a bigger one. ↗

— Coldplay

#inspirational #life #life-and-living #life-lesson #death

This spirit or intelligence-energy in spirituality transmigrates to restart its journey, into yet another cycle of what we call life and death." www.booksonspirituality.com ↗

— Gian Kumar

#death

Undertown. You maybe don’t remember it. Your clothes don’t smell of it. Of the filth, the rot. The stinking hell of vapor and grime. The warren of hovels and the millions of us starving in them, defending whatever pathetic collection of things we call ‘ours’—sometimes to the death, yet still doing little more than waiting to die. ↗

— Julio-Alexi Genao

#death

No one is defined by a single act," Frederic said. "Whether it was years ago or weeks ago. We're all given chances to change, to make up for things we've done wrong. It's how we handle those opportunities that really matters. ↗

— Christopher Healy

#wisdom #change

I am not here [in the sanitarium] to write, but to be mad. ↗

— Robert Walser

#inspirational

If they give you ruled paper, right the other way. ↗

— Juan Ramón Jiménez

#inspirational

The secret of happiness is freedom, the secret of freedom is courage. ↗

— Carrie Jones

#freedom #happiness #courage

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#philosophy #courage

I spit upon your God! ↗

— William Golding

#pincher-martin #death