#ration

If you want something you can have it, but only if you want everything that goes with it, including all the hard work and the despair, and only if you're willing to risk failure. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#life #inspirational

The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations. ↗

— Rutherford B. Hayes

#corporations #government #occupy-wall-street #ows #potus

Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections. ↗

— Gerard Way

#life #inspirational

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#existing #inspirational #life #living #synchronicity

Imagination is the first stage of escapism. ↗

— Sheila N. Eskew

#imagination

Let them call me a rebel and welcome. I feel no concern from it. But should I suffer the misery of devils, were I to make a whore of my soul. ↗

— Thomas Paine

#politics #inspirational

According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thought-provoking #inspirational

you never fail in less you fail from trying. ↗

— McBRAID

#inspirational

Sometimes it takes a while to recognize that someone has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals, and to imagine that together we can do great things. In those rare moments, when such a person comes along, we need to put aside our plans and reach for what we know is possible. ↗

— Caroline Kennedy

#endorsement #inspiration #kennedy #politics #voting