#ration

We are gods in the chrysalis. ↗

— Dale Carnegie

#dale-carnegie #inspiration #optimism #attitude

Our generation has taken to the cosmetic use of pesticides and I think, perhaps unwittingly, not fully understanding the dangers it represents to ourselves and, most importantly, to our children. ↗

— Dalton McGuinty

#cosmetic #dangers #fully #generation #i

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. ↗

— Thomas Mellon

#been #civilization #cultivated #extract #ingrained

Never give up. Dare to Dream. Dare to believe. ↗

— Stacey T. Hunt

#author #awesome #believe #books #dare

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

Don’t overplay your part – underplay your part. That’s the way to play it effectively. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Admittedly great though these reasons be, they are not the principal grounds, that is, those which may rightfully claim for themselves the privilege of the highest admiration. ↗

— Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

#admittedly #claim #great #grounds #highest

It is the mark of an educated man to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it ↗

— Aristotle

#education

I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free. ↗

— Georgia O'Keeffe

#criticism #inspirational #art

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world. ↗

— Lucille Ball

#self-acceptance #inspirational