#rational

Creatures are not born with desires unless satisfaction for those desires exists. A baby feels hunger: well, there is such a thing as food. A duckling wants to swim: well, there is such a thing as water. Men feel sexual desire: well, there is such a thing as sex. If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for anot...her world. If none of my earthly pleasures satisfy it, that does not prove that the universe is a fraud. Probably earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy it, but only to arouse it, to suggest the real thing. If that is so, I must take care, on the one hand, never to despise, or be unthankful for, these earthly blessings, and on the other, never to mistake them for the something else of which they are only a kind of copy, or echo, or mirage. I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find until after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others do the same. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#self #death

Ish #211 "Your child is your parental obligation, not friend. ↗

— Regina Griffin

#motivation #motivational-quotes #truth-insprational #motivational

As Christians, we are not to beg for signs and wonders but, to command them all the time and not some of the time. ↗

— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#higherlife-coach #ifeanyi-enoch-onuoha #inspirational #life #motivational

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poor-house. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #motivation #inspirational

If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary. ↗

— Val Edward Simone

#motivational #death

The problem with people is they stop trying in trying times. ↗

— Evangela Thendi Comfort

#motivational #spiritual #motivational

Everything happens everywhere every time anywhere anyhow and whatever and whichever way it wants to happens,think about it ↗

— Akobundu Kelechi

#motivational #non-fictional-fiction #psychological #motivational

others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers. ↗

— Ayi Kwei Armah

#inspirational

Do not let your fire go out spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the approximate the not-quite the not-yet the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists it is real it is possible it is yours. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#inspirational

Fear! Fear again, for the first time since his 'teens. Fear, that he thought he would never know any more. Fear that no weapon, no jeopardy, no natural cataclysm, has ever been able to inspire until now. And now here it is running icily through him in the hot Chinese noon. Fear for the thing he loves, the only fear that can ever wholly cow the reckless and the brave. ("Jane Brown's Body") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#fearless #fearlessness #inspirational