#th

When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#becomes #dreams #everything #fantasies #our dreams

Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#else #eventually #forever #hour #however

But I don't think the popularity of flying has diminished a bit. ↗

— Gerard Arpey

#diminished #flying #i #popularity #think

If children have the ability to ignore all odds and percentages, then maybe we can all learn from them. When you think about it, what other choice is there but to hope? We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up, or Fight Like Hell. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#about #children #choice #emotionally #fight

A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear is the booing. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#booing #cheer #cheering #hear #lot

Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#everybody #game #going #i #illness

Your soul once sat on an easel on my knee. For ages I hve been sketching you With myriad shapes of sounds and light; Now awake, dear pilgrim, With your thousand swaying arms That need to caress the sky. ↗

— حافظ

#age

Portland, Oregon won't build a mile of road without a mile of bike path. You can commute there, even with that weather, all the time. ↗

— Lance Armstrong

#build #commute #even #mile #oregon

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#blue #earth #eye #feel #felt

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#being #challenges #deep #face #going