#si

Simply because we were licked a hundred years before we started is no reason for us not to try to win. ↗

— Harper Lee

#reason

Talk about a dream, try to make it real ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#inspirational #inspirational-life #music #dreams

I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers/ And laid entwined together in a bed of clover/ Left there to sleep/ Left there to dream of happiness. ↗

— Conor Oberst

#bright-eyes #conor-oberst #depression #love #lovers

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and of suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us; to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; In “Blood, Toil, Tears, and Sweat,” his first speech as Prime Minister to the House of Commons May 13, 1940 quoted by Jeffrey R. Holland in “However Long and Hard the Road” BYU Devotional 18 Jan 1983 ↗

— Winston Churchill

#goals #victory #vision #work #crime

Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ↗

— Orhan Pamuk

#insight #sorrow #mistakes

Never to suffer would never to have been blessed. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#contrast #suffering

Dignity, always Dignity! ↗

— Gene Kelly

#dignity

If someone puts their hands on you make sure they never put their hands on anybody else again. ↗

— Malcolm X

#police-brutality #power #resistance #solidarity #violence

Passion has little to do with euphoria and everything to do with patience. It is not about feeling good. It is about endurance. Like patience, passion comes from the same Latin root: pati. It does not mean to flow with exuberance. It means to suffer. ↗

— Mark Z. Danielewski

#suffering

We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#empathy #kindness #suffering #understanding-others #suffering