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Of course, I quiet agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable discomfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in the dismay and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is one thing you cannot get looking for it. If you look for the truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth-only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and the in the end, despair. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#truth #inspirational

Books are the reality you get to choose; life is the reality you hide from inside a book. ↗

— A.M. Hudson

#inspirational #life-philosophy #inspirational

No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#inspirational #lord-of-the-rings #middle-earth #pippin #tolkien

Desire is the starting point of all achievement,not a hope,not a wish,but a keen pulsating desire which trancends everything. ↗

— Napoleon Hill

#inspirational

I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#inspirational

Let's start with a test: Do you have any opinions that you would be reluctant to express in front of a group of your peers? If the answer is no, you might want to stop and think about that. If everything you believe is something you're supposed to believe, could that possibly be a coincidence? Odds are it isn't. Odds are you just think whatever you're told. ↗

— Paul Graham

#age

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to used during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course? Each of us has such a bank, it's name is time. Every morning, it credits you 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off at a lost, whatever of this you failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day. If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow". You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness, and health. The clock is running. Make the most of today. ↗

— Marc Levy

#time #imagination

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#inspirational #truth #inspirational

We must take care that globalization does not become something people become afraid of. ↗

— Gerhard Schroder

#become #care #does #globalization #must

And it is this sense that some of us have to contribute to the culture, to the society in ways that may hurt financially, so what? We do it because we are born to do it, we feel we have no other choice and so be it. ↗

— Gunther Schuller

#born #choice #contribute #culture #feel