#rational

A battlefield; the canvas. The paint; blood. The brush; your sword. The painter; you. ↗

— Cleopatra Franco

#inspirational

Be true to yourself and to the culture you were born into. Tell your story as only you can. ↗

— William Knowlton Zinsser

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I am a bomb but I mean you no harm. That I still am here to tell this, is a miracle: I was deployed on May 15, 1957, but I didn’t go off because a British nuclear engineer, a young father, developed qualms after seeing pictures of native children marveling at the mushrooms in the sky, and sabotaged me. I could see why during that short drop before I hit the atoll: the island looks like god’s knuckles in a bathtub, the ocean is beautifully translucent, corals glow underwater, a dead city of bones, allowing a glimpse into a white netherworld. I met the water and fell a few feet into a chromatic cemetery. The longer I lie here, listening to my still functioning electronic innards, the more afraid I grow of detonating after all this time. I don’t share your gods, but I pray I shall die a silent death. ↗

— Marcus Speh

#humanity #inspirational #literary #pacific-islands #speh

Each of us lives with a sword over his head. There are those who can ignore its shadow and those who cannot. Those who cannot are not necessarily better than those who can. But they are the creators of the special myth of their time, because any myth is the creation of the very few who cannot bear reality. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#activism-inspiration #american-history #ethics #myth #revolution

aku harus memelihra harapan-harapanku,barangkali akan tiba waktunya ketika aku akan mampu mewujudkannya... ↗

— nurul arofah

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learning eachother by do it together... growing together by understanding eachother... ↗

— Toge Aprilianto

#self-empowerment #inspirational

find out yourself on purpose... or you will get nothing at last. ↗

— Toge Aprilianto

#self-empowerment #inspirational

Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! ↗

— John Godfrey Saxe

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It's not the size of the man, but the size of his heart that matters. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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The truth came to me-a great revelation, showing me that I have a child to the Jones whole and perfect mind, created to express the health that God with. ↗

— Myrtle Filmore

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