#ration

Singing is my pleasure, but not in church, for the parson said the gargoyles must remain on the outside, not seek room in the choir stalls. So I sing inside the mountain of my flesh, and my voice is as slender as a reed and my voice has no lard in it. When I sing the dogs sit quiet and people who pass in the night stop their jabbering and discontent and think of other times, when they were happy. And I sing of other times, when I was happy, though I know that these are figments of my mind and nowhere I have been. But does it matter if the place cannot be mapped as long as I can still describe it? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#attitude

Every negative... Has a positive side... ↗

— Nelson M. Lubao

#life-lessons #lpositive-attitude #right-perspectives #attitude

Sadness, disappointment, and severe challenge are events in life, not life itself. I do not minimize how hard some of these events are. They can extend over a long period of time, but they should not be allowed to become the confining center of everything you do. The Lord inspired Lehi to declare the fundamental truth, “Men are, that they might have joy.” That is a conditional statement: “they might have joy.” It is not conditional for the Lord. His intent is that each of us finds joy. It will not be conditional for you as you obey the commandments, have faith in the Master, and do the things that are necessary to have joy here on earth. ↗

— Richard G. Scott

#uplifting #faith

Loving the self involves faith and trust and belief in who you are, and a willingness to take action upon it. ↗

— Sanaya Roman

#love #faith

It may be a procession of faithful failures that enriches the soil of godly success. Faithful actions are not religious acts. They are not even necessary actions undertaken by people of faith. Faithful actions, whether they are marked by success or they end in failure, are actions that are compelled by goodness. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#inspirational #spiritual #faith

Because love was a light that wouldn't allow darkness to reign in his soul. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

#inspirational #love #faith

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world. ↗

— Mike Norton

#alone #aspiration #aspire #dream #fail

In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts. ↗

— Lukas Foss

#began #century #grandiose #idea #inspiration

Without adversity, there would be no growth, and without growth, there would be no lesson to be learned. ↗

— Michelle Cruz-Rosado

#motivational #opportunity #dreams

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country. ↗

— Robert F. Kennedy

#politics #inspirational