#rational

Always strive to aim for the highest peak of the goals in life you have set, this way if you manage to reach even half way toward a goal, landing in the middle is not such a bad place to end up. ↗

— Victoria Addino

#inspirational #motivation #motivational #positive #positive-attitude

The truth-that love is the highest goal to which man can aspire. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#attitude

I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even the enemy ↗

— Jessica Dovey

#attitude

Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore. ↗

— George R.R. Martin

#inspirational-life #attitude

Jim [Henson] had written letters to his five children to be opened only after his death. Brian read from his. Jim wrote, 'Be good to each other. Love and forgive everybody.' I remembered Jim telling me that he never wasted energy on hating anybody; he had too much thinking to do. ↗

— Caroll Spinney

#death

A man is born gentle and weak; at his death he is hard and stiff. All things, including the grass and trees, are soft and pliable in life; dry and brittle in death. Stiffness is thus a companion of death; flexibility a companion of life. An army that cannot yield will be defeated. A tree that cannot bend will crack in the wind. The hard and stiff will be broken; the soft and supple will prevail. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#death

Life has to end, she said. Love doesn't. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#death #dying #endings #inspirational #life

Before his death, Rabbi Zusya said "In the coming world, they will not ask me: 'Why were you not Moses?' They will ask me: 'Why were you not Zusya? ↗

— Martin Buber

#death

...almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear...these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose...There is no reason not to follow your heart ↗

— Steve Jobs

#death

Fear is a bird that refuses to fly, and each time she neglects to use her wings, she consents to the slow death of her destiny. ↗

— Nadia Janice Brown

#inspirational #death