#si

Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#inspirational #russian #sacrifice #inspirational

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships. ↗

— Helen Keller

#life

Some have muses to inspire them. i have musIC. ↗

— Maysa Costa de Araujo

#inspirational #muse #music #inspirational

Compassion is the key to the ultimate survival of our species. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#humanity #inspiration #survival #inspirational

I told the President, I told Rahm Emanuel and others in the administration that I thought the policy they took to try to bring about negotiations is counter-productive, because when you give the Palestinians hope that the United States will do its negotiating for them, they are not going to sit down and talk. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#administration #because #bring #down #give

Palestinians don't really believe in a state of Israel. They, unlike a majority of Israelis, who have come to the conclusion that they can live with a two-state solution to be determined by the parties, the majority of Palestinians are still very reluctant, and they need to be pushed to get there. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#come #conclusion #determined #get #israel

The inexpressible depth of music, so easy to understand and yet so inexplicable, is due to the fact that it reproduces all the emotions of our innermost being, but entirely without reality and remote from its pain...Music expresses only the quintessence of life and of its events, never these themselves. ↗

— Oliver Sacks

#life

We are on the precipice of a crisis, a Constitutional crisis. The checks and balances, which have been at the core of this Republic, are about to be evaporated by the nuclear option. The checks and balances that say if you get 51% of the vote, you don't get your way 100% of the time. It is amazing, it's almost a temper tantrum. ↗

— Charles Schumer

#almost #amazing #balances #been #checks

Desire makes life happen. Makes it matter. Makes everything worth it. Desire is life. Hunger to see the next sunrise or sunset, to touch the one you love, to try again. “Hell would be waking up and wanting nothing,” he agrees. ↗

— Karen Marie Moning

#hope #life #life

The first gift is Strength. May you remember to call upon it whenever you need it. ↗

— Charlene Costanzo

#character-building #inner-strength #inspiration #strength #inspirational