#pi

The four most over-rated things in life are champagne, lobster, anal sex, and picnics. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#champagne #lobster #picnics #life

Life takes its toll and your insecurities become who you are. ↗

— Elizabeth Ringrose

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore it if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational-life #inspirational

When life gives you pain, accept it. When life gives you happiness, reject it. ↗

— Santosh Kalwar

#pain #suffering #life

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#life #malice #spite #life

Discipline provides a constancy which is independent of what kind of day you had yesterday and what kind of day you anticipate today. ↗

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

#life #inspirational

Apprentices Needed, Not Disciples For many, the knowledge of a Jesus, a Lao-tzu, a Buddha, or a Gandhi is complete and unassailable. But we do them and their vision a disservice when we follow them rather than using what they have taught to build upon as we strive toward our goal of a better society. ↗

— William Coperthwaite

#philosophical #inspirational

There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street. ↗

— John Paul Warren

#church #inspirational #leadership #motivational #pastors

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened ↗

— Winston Churchill

#life #worry #inspirational

The chances of finding out what’s really going on in the universe are so remote, the only thing to do is hang the sense of it and keep yourself occupied. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#meaning-of-life #universe #universeing-occupied #life