#thou

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#accomplish #anything #decided #early #ever

Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#awaken #awakens #inside #must #seldom

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be. ↗

— Frank Herbert

#cannot #darkness #falsehood #knowing #light

Islam is not man's ultimate justification to do as he pleases--it is, instead, a religion built on reason and evidence. If each of us asks the ustaz for the causes of his religious opinions, then we should, by doing so, help realise the principles of Islam and thus improve intellectual discussion in our own community. ↗

— Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin

#religion #thought #religion

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin. ↗

— George Herbert

#hath #learning #man #memory #rock

A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#doing #even #fame #hope #love

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual! ↗

— George Herman

#adult #concept #emotion #first #handling

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it. ↗

— Herodotus

#always #become #being #bit #fun

Ideas come from somewhere. People don't come up with these ideas from nowhere. Something triggers your thoughts. ↗

— Lazaro Hernandez

#ideas #nowhere #people #something #somewhere

You have something that exists in your head, and getting that abstract thought from your head into something that actually exists is a difficult process. ↗

— Lazaro Hernandez

#abstract thought #actually #difficult #exists #getting