#rational

The Master said, “What a worthy man was Yan Hui! Living in a narrow alley, subsisting upon meager bits of rice and water—other people could not have borne such hardship, and yet it never spoiled Hui’s joy. What a worthy man was Hui!” (Analects 6.11) ↗

— Confucius

#inspirational #wisdom #inspirational

Sometimes the most difficult thing to do is to believe in yourself, the reason it is so hard is because it is worth it. ↗

— Tonny K. Brown

#inspirational

We don't stop hiking because we grow old - we grow old because we stop hiking ↗

— Finis Mitchell

#life #nature #inspirational

Anguish is the universal language ↗

— Alice Fulton

#empathy #inspiration #language #understanding #inspirational

It is left to each of us to balance contentment regarding what God has allotted to us in life with some divine discontent resulting from what we are in comparison to what we have the power to become. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#inspirational

THE CURSE May they never Return home at night... May you have no part of eventide, May you have no room of your own, Nor road, nor return. May your days be all exactly the same, Five Fridays in a row, Always an unlucky Tuesday, No Sunday, May you have no more little worries, Tears or inspiration, For you yourself are the greatest worry on earth: Prisoner! ↗

— Visar Zhiti

#malediction #prison #prisoner #inspirational

Your life is an occasion - rise to it. ↗

— Suzanne Weyn

#inspirational

I know now what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work. ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. ↗

— Horace Bushnell

#inspirational #inspirational

Oprah got her money," she snapped. "You trying to get YOURS! No, turn off that fuckin' TV and get to studying! ↗