#ration

Sometimes the only way to ever find yourself is to get completely lost. ↗

— Kellie Elmore

#life-and-living #life-experience #life-lessons #motivational-quotes #experience

The beliefs expressed in the Declaration of Independence remain a standard for our nation today. They also remain a standard for those nations across the globe striving to achieve democracy. ↗

— Paul Gillmor

#across #also #beliefs #declaration #democracy

The idea that you surrender your identity when you relinquish national powers is unhelpful. No, indeed, precisely the opposite is the case: if done in an intelligent way, you attain the sovereignty to better solve national problems in cooperation with others. ↗

— Ulrich Beck

#better #case #cooperation #done #idea

A man whose eyes love opens risks his soul - His dancing breaks beyond the mind's control. ↗

— Farid al-Din Attar

#dance #inspirational #love #truth #beauty

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#act #charitable #every #heaven #stepping

Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#far #heaven #into #men #often

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon. ↗

— Dag Hammarskjold

#constant #good #important #just #major

I was amazed at how easy it was for the Clinton Administration to basically cover what they did at Waco in the fog of lies and avoid any responsibility for it. ↗

— James Bovard

#amazed #any #avoid #basically #clinton

We know that attention acts as a lightning rod. Merely by concentrating on something one causes endless analogies to collect around it, even penetrate the boundaries of the subject itself: an experience that we call coincidence, serendipity – the terminology is extensive. My experience has been that in these circular travels what is really significant surrounds a central absence, an absence that, paradoxically, is the text being written or to be written. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#coincidence #concentration #writing #experience

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#habit #mind #moderation #nature #reason