#ten

The stars up there at night are closer than you think. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#distance #existence #infinity #inspiration #space

Pay attention to the intricate patterns of your existence that you take for granted. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#existence #inspiration #life #patterns #inspirational

One moment several things are possible, the next moment only one happens, and the rest don't exist. Except that other worlds have sprung into being, on which the did happen. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#life #science #life

In one sentence, I'd describe myself as indescribable. But, I wouldn't end it with a period. I'd end it with three dots. ↗

— Jason Schwartzman

#dots #end #i #indescribable #myself

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#come #commonly #done #going #happen

Creation is bringing potential into being, bringing inspiration into action. Inspiration and action are nothing when they are apart. Inspiration feels like a great a wondrous thing, but if it is not manifested, it is as if it never existed. Likewise, action without inspiration has no purpose. It is only when they are together as one that they are truly something. ↗

— Kristi Bowman

#inspiration #potential #purpose #inspirational

I will not be defined by the marks left on me by the world, but by the mark I leave on the world (referring to the facial scars he still carries from his successful 1991 battle against cancer, which caused him to be turned down for a customer service job because he was "too ugly"). ↗

— James Houston Turner

#persistence #inspirational

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #quote #success #the-alchemist #inspirational

I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place. ↗

— Campbell Scott

#could #crazy #environment #exotic #had

It is not enough to be happy, one must be content. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #inspirational