#rational

Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up. ↗

— Lacey Sturm

#flyleaf #improvement #inspirational #mosley #nicole

All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But when the men have died in battle and honour, you have leave to be burned in the house, for the men will need it no more. But I am of the House of Erol and not a serving-woman. I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #death

He reflected that what is important is not things, but the meaning we give to things. Sooner or later death comes for everyone. More important than putting off death, is giving it a meaning. ↗

— Silvana De Mari

#death

I came to believe it not true that "the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one." I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave. ↗

— Leo Rosten

#death

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

#inspirational #life #mottos #inspirational

Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkin? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene. ↗

— N. D. Wilson

#inspirational #life #tolkien #freedom

No matter where we come from, a little sugar is what everybody demands in life, what everybody needs in life. It's perhaps the main ingredient that keeps us alive. ↗

— Merce Cardus

#kindness #inspirational

Isn't it interesting that all of the biblical prophets and psalmists were poets? ↗

— Eugene H. Peterson

#inspirational #religious #art

Beauty isn't what you see on TV or in magazine ads or even necessarily in art galleries. It's a lot deeper and a lot simpler than that. It's realizing the goodness of things, it's leaving the world a little better than it was before you got here. It's appreciating the inspiration of the world around you and trying to inspire others. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#beauty #inspirational #art

No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#hard-times #inspiration #inspirational