#stance

All of us are experts at practicing virtue at a distance. ↗

— Theodore Hesburgh

#experts #practicing #us #virtue

Men dream more about coming home than about leaving. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #journey #longing #love #melancholy

He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the imagination of her. She had been distant and closed away, a princess in a tower, and his imagination’s work had been all to make her present, all of her, to his mind and senses, the quickness of her and the mystery, the whiteness of her, which was part of her extreme magnetism, and the green look of those piercing or occluded eyes. Her presence had been unimaginable, or more strictly, only to be imagined. Yet here she was, and he was engaged in observing the ways in which she resembled, or differed from, the woman he dreamed, or reached for in sleep, or would fight for. ↗

— A.S. Byatt

#distance #imagination #love #lust #possession

Don't be a creation of circumstances, create your dreams, take full control of your destiny. ↗

— Steven Redhead

#control #create #creation #destiny #dreams

Our work is directly proportional to the distances our dreams travel across, as force (power) is a constant factor ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#distances #dreams #proportional #travel #work

Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ↗

— Arthur C. Clarke

#life #loneliness #qotd #sense-of-wonder #universe

Stop blaming outside circumstances for your inside chaos. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#circumstances #inspirational #motivational #success #experience

I recommend that you focus on both substance and process of your goals. I believe that both are equally important: by setting a high-quality SMART goal you will enable yourself to be conscious and your actions will carry more meaning; meanwhile, it is the execution of the SMART goals strategy that separates achievers from the rest of the people. ↗

— Anna Stevens

#goal-setting #goals #process #smart-goals #substance

The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#circumstance #happiness #inspiration #life #pleaure

Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#blame #correcting #error #fault #friendship