#sk

Faith always contains an element of risk, of venture; and we are impelled to make the venture by the affinity and attraction which we feel in ourselves. ↗

— Dean Inge

#always #attraction #contains #element #faith

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#act #action #ask #define #know

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills. ↗

— Troy Vincent

#bit #end #i #i tried #kids

Americanism is not a matter of skin or color. ↗

— Daniel Inouye

#color #matter #skin

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#i #moon #movement #seen #sinews

Why should I ask the wise men: Whence is my beginning? I am busy with the thought: Where will be my end? ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#ask #beginning #busy #end #i

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#deserts #down #educator #jungles #modern

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ↗

— Anais Nin

#blossom #bud #came #day #more

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#completely #cut #find #happiness #only

What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous. ↗

— John Green

#death