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We didn't start the fire It was always burning Since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it ↗

— Billy Joel

#lessons #life #music #poetry #inspirational

I want 'Flesh Of My Flesh' to be like my connection to the community, I want to say what's on my peoples' minds, soak up all their pain. I've learned that when I take it all in, I can make one brotha's pain be understood by the world. ↗

— DMX

#connection #flesh #i #i can #learned

I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you’re doing and everything you’ve done is the way it’s supposed to be. ↗

— Randolph J. Rogers

#life-lessons #inspirational

You are an Universe of Universes and your soul a source of songs. ↗

— Rubén Darío

#love #poem #poetry #soul #universe

Summer was on the way; Jem and I awaited it with impatience. Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill. ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational #landscape #mockingbird #scout #season

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#ian-somerhalder #inspiring #thoughtful #inspirational

Each man must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, which course is patriotic and which isn't. You cannot shirk this and be a man. To decide against your conviction is to be an unqualified and excusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country, let men label you as they may. ↗

— Mark Twain

#philosophical #inspirational

Reputation Is Temporary..As Much as The Man Owning Your Reputation Is ↗

— Sujit Lalwani

#life-lessons #motivation #motivational-quotes #inspirational

The secret to finding your passion is to bring it to everything you do. --Marie Forleo (Yes, even doing the laundry!) ↗

— Marie Forleo

#passion #super-soul-sunday #inspirational

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#fear #future #humor #inspirational #life-lessons