#rational

A species in which everyone was General Patton would not succeed, any more than would a race in which everyone was Vincent van Gogh. I prefer to think that the planet needs athletes, philosophers, sex symbols, painters, scientists; it needs the warmhearted, the hardhearted, the coldhearted, and the weakhearted. It needs those who can devote their lives to studying how many droplets of water are secreted by the salivary glands of dogs under which circumstances, and it needs those who can capture the passing impression of cherry blossoms in a fourteen-syllable poem or devote twenty-five pages to the dissection of a small boy's feelings as he lies in bed in the dark waiting for his mother to kiss him goodnight... ↗

— Allen Shawn

#inspirational

Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are—how impossible to reach. ↗

— Ally Condie

#inspirational

My mother said to me, “If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.” Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#inspirational

If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #luck #quote #the-alchemist #inspirational

silence is not a langauge, its a weapon to make your dear one to feel ↗

— William Shakespeare

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Kebanyakan orang menuduh gue mempunyai dua kepribadian. Mereka salah! Sebab gue punya empat... ↗

— Dannie Faizal

#inspirational

This is the extraordinary thing about creativity: If just you keep your mind resting against the subject in a friendly but persistent way, sooner or later you will get a reward from your unconscious. ↗

— John Cleese

#inspiration #inspirational

Stand in Your Power: When a woman stands in her power and speaks her truth from the heart, it brings balance into the Universe and the opportunity to connect fully with Divine source ↗

— Teresa Proctor

#inspirational #women #inspirational

One must own that there are certain books which can be read without the mind and without the heart, but still with considerable enjoyment. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

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The ice has to face the heat and melt to reach the Ocean. ↗

— Ozay Oktay

#spiritual #inspirational