#rational

The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past, so warped by experience and the pull of that silken cord, that they never free themselves of the shadows that live in the time machine... And if there is a kind thought due them, it may be found contained in the words of the late Gerald Kersh, who wrote:"... there are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#realism #revenge #experience

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.. ↗

— Paul Theroux

#risk #travel #change

Start shaping your own day. Start walking your own walk. This journey is yours, take charge of it. Stop giving other people the power to shape your life. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #life #motivational #power #success

Free yourself from the burden of feeling the need to hold on to anything. Let go… you are a part of everything. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#free #happiness #inspirational #let-go #motivational

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the mext moment ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#life #success #inspirational

And it's deadly to us. We can inspire lust, but it's just a shadow. An illusion. Love is a dangerous force." He shook his head. "Love killed the dinosaurs, man." I'm pretty sure a meteor killed the dinosaurs, Thomas." He shrugged. "There's a theory making the rounds now that when the meteor hit it only killed off the big stuff. That there were plenty of smaller reptiles running around, about the same size as all the mammals at the time. The reptiles should have regained their position eventually, but they didn't, because the mammals could feel love. They could be utterly, even irrationally devoted to their mates and their offspring. It made them more likely to survive. The lizards couldn't do that. The meteor hit gave the mammals their shot, but it was love that turned the tide. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#love #thomas-raith #inspirational

'Yes, we rather condemn people for eternity without the courtesy of informing them.' ↗

— Matthew Pearl

#inspirational #humor

For me, the dying part wasn’t so horrible. I was only in pain for a few moments before death arrived. For me, the difficult part was having so many things that I had yet to experience, leaving behind people that I cared about. I wasn’t through living. ↗

— Suzannah Daniels

#daniels #death #ghostly-encounter #inspirational #suzannah

But if you can’t love your-self, you can never love others. And if you never overcome your lack of self- love, you will carry that problem into all your relationships. Plagued by rejection, you will experience conflict with others, you will struggle to set meaningful goals, and you will feel a vague uncertainty about what truly matters. ↗

— Ken Freeman

#experience

You and I have been created with a DNA that drives us to want to live a life with good experiences, forces us to human growth and leads us to the contribution of something beyond our understanding. ↗

— Yovanny Alfonso

#human-growth #inspirational-quotes #living-life #experience