#ten

It was a life, she eventually concluded, that had been lived in the middle ground, where contentment and love were found in the smallest details of people's lives. It was a life of dignity and honor, not without sorrows yet fulfilling in a way that few experiences ever were. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#dignity #fulfilling #honor #life #love

The slogans “hang on” and “press on” have solved and will continue to solve the problems of humanity. ↗

— Ogwo David Emenike

#motivational #persistence #inspirational

A friend of mine, the most innocuous dreamer who ever lived, once set a forest on fire to see, as he said, if it would catch as easily as people said. The first ten times the experiment was a failure; but on the eleventh it succeeded all too well. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

#persistence #experience

Joy is a deeply felt contentment that transcends difficult circumstances and derives maximum enjoyment from every good experience. ↗

— Charles R. Swindoll

#contentment #joy #trials #experience

You are what your creators and experiences have made you, like every other being in this universe. Accept that and be done; I tire of your whining. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#existence #philosophy #self #experience

Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #honesty #lying #potential #self-deception

It’s called an ‘accomplishment’, not an ‘intent-ishment’. You’ve got to BE it to SEE it. NO MORE EXCUSES - Decide what you want, create a plan, and get your ass out there! ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#action #dreams #excuses #goals #inspirational

Apparently, before we are born, each of us experiences a vision of what our life can be, complete with reflections on our parents and our tendencies to engage in particular control dramas, even how we might work through these dramas with these parents and go on to be prepared for what we want to accomplish. ↗

— James Redfield

#potential #experience

I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner source of love and truth – the inner language of silence. Now I also notice that this silence is going deeper, and that I go beyond the ego and disappear into the silence. First this brought up fear, but now I am enjoying this meditation of disappering into the silence and to be nobody. I have started experimenting with this phenomenon to understand how to consciously go beyond the ego: yesterday when I took a cofee at a restaurant, I consciously turned my attention within and disappeared into the silence, which was like finding an inner source of bliss. In aloneness, I experiment with being consciously alone as a door to be egoless. In conscious aloneness, the ego can not function. In aloneness, your are not. When I am walking, I consciously experiment with being with Existence without having the mind constantly commenting. I try to just be wordlessly with the people and situations that I meet on my walk. When I can just be with Existence, it opens the door to be one with the Whole. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#bliss #ego #existence #fear #love

...Desire, a function central to all human experience, is the desire for nothing nameable. And at the same time this desire lies at the origin of every variety of animation. If being were only what it is, there wouldn’t even be room to talk about it. Being comes into existence as an exact function of this lack. ↗

— Jacques Lacan

#desire #existence #lacan #lack #experience