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Q: When is the perfect time? A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#delay #fear #future #haste #inspiring-quotes

Anguish is the universal language ↗

— Alice Fulton

#empathy #inspiration #language #understanding #inspirational

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. ↗

— Horace Bushnell

#inspirational #inspirational

The mind is a powerful thing. It can take you through walls. ↗

— Denis Avey

#inspirational #mind #mindset #positive-quotes #true

My voice was a bare rasp of fear. "In the weaving room, the women say it's never been this bad before..." "They always say that when things get difficult," she answered softly. Then she sat up suddenly as though coming fully awake. Reaching down, she took my chin in her hand and tipped my face to look up at hers. "Remember, Gwen, no matter who says what, the important thing is to understand what needs to be done, and then do it. No matter how hard it is, or how much pain you feel. It's as simple as that, really. Once you know what you have to do, you just do it. ↗

— Persia Woolley

#hard-times #inspirational #mother-daughter #inspirational

The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen. ↗

— Julia Child

#inspirational #imagination

Then, what is sacrelige [sic]? If it is nothing more than a rebellion against dogma, it is eventually as meaningless as the dogma it defies, and they are both become hounds ranting in the high grass, never see the boar in the thicket. Only a religious person can perpetrate sacrelige: and if its blasphemy reaches the heart of the question; if it investigates deeply enough to unfold, not the pattern, but the materials of the pattern, and the necessity of a pattern; if it questions so deeply that the doubt it arouses is frightening and cannot be dismissed; then it has done its true sacreligious [sic] work, in the service of its adversary: the only service that nihilism can ever perform. (unused 1949 prefatory note to The Recognitions) ↗

— William Gaddis

#dogma #enlightenment #insight #inspirational #nihilism

Indeed, it has affirmed my belief that our purpose as spiritual beings is to follow our bliss, seek our passions, and live our lives as inspirations to each other. ↗

— Aron Ralston

#life #love #passion #inspirational

You do it how you can do it, so long as it's getting done, you're okay. ↗

— Emma Forrest

#inspirational #life #inspirational

Laughter is the sun which drives the winte from the human face. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#laughter #positive-thinking #inspirational