#ration

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. ↗

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

#death #duration #eternal #eternal life #eternity

Courage becomes a worthwhile and meaningful virtue when it is regarded not so much as a willingness to die manfully but as a determination to live decently. ↗

— Thomas S. Monson

#integrity #morality #courage

Intention to pray is even more powerful than physical prayer - but it's good to do both. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

There is no rest in the heart of God until He knows that you are at resh in His grace. ↗

— Lloyd John Ogilvie

#inspirational

Fear is a fire to temper courage and resolve. Use it so. ↗

— Terry Brooks

#memorable #courage

Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#fiction #inspirational #age

Flying or falling, it's up to us. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#ethan-wate #inspirational #beauty

From the writer of "Age of Armageddon: The Spirit of Krynn" Once one feels justified, one is often bereft of conscience. ↗

— Ryan Tyler Palmer

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #age

Yet the laboriously sought musical epiphany rarely compares to the unsought, even unwanted tune whose ambush is violent and sudden: the song the cab driver was tuned to, the song rumbling from the speaker wedged against the fire-escape railing, the song tingling from the transistor on the beach blanket. To locate those songs again can become, with age, something like a religious quest, as suggested by the frequent use of the phrase "Holy Grail" to describe hard-to-find tracks. The collector is haunted by the knowledge that somewhere on the planet an intact chunk of his past still exists, uncorrupted by time or circumstance. ↗

— Geoffrey O'Brien

#exploration #fascination #holy-grail #music #age

Does anyone else day dream about what it would be like if specific age groups just dropped dead all across the world? ↗

— Christy Leigh Stewart

#funny-and-random #generation #question #age