#story

Today is a new day. Don't let your history interfere with your destiny! Let today be the day you stop being a victim of your circumstances and start taking action towards the life you want. You have the power and the time to shape your life. Break free from the poisonous victim mentality and embrace the truth of your greatness. You were not meant for a mundane or mediocre life! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#circumstances #destiny #greatness #history #inspirational

Learning the truth has become my life's love ↗

— Dan Brown

#life #truth #life

If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #listen #love #master #story

From time to time, I open a newspaper. Things seem to be proceeding at a dizzying rate. We are dancing not on the edge of a volcano, but on the wooden seat of a latrine, and it seems to me more than a touch rotten. Soon society will go plummeting down and drown in nineteen centuries of shit. There’ll be quite a lot of shouting. (1850) ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#humanity #life #mankind #life

I'll go to the south of Sicily in the winter, and paint memories of Arles – I'll buy a piano and Mozart me that – I'll write long sad tales about people in the legend of my life – This part is my part of the movie, let's hear yours ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#storytelling #life

How was life before Pop-Tarts, Prozac and padded playgrounds? They ate strudel, took opium and played on the grass. ↗

— Jennifer Michael Hecht

#history #life

You want to tell a story? Grow a heart. Grow two. Now, with the second heart, smash the first one into bits. ↗

— Charles Yu

#life #storytelling #truth #writing #life

This history of culture will explain to us the motives, the conditions of life, and the thought of the writer or reformer. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#history #humanity #life #motives #life

For anyone of a rational disposition, fashion is often nearly impossible to fathom. Throughout many periods of history – perhaps most – it can seem as if the whole impulse of fashion has been to look maximally ridiculous. If one could be maximally uncomfortable as well, the triumph was all the greater. ↗

— Bill Bryson

#history #humor #humor

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of development have had no purpose other than to put him on earth. There is no scientific evidence whatever to support such a view and no reason to suppose that our stay here will be any more permanent than that of the dinosaur. ↗

— David Attenborough

#life