#though

Dedication and enthusiams are the greatest rewards for learning ↗

— Isabel Ramos

#knowledge-of-self #thoughts-from-the-heart #witty #inspirational

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#inspirational #inspiring #philosophical #religious #thought-provoking

There is great power in our words, because they are thoughts to which we have given additional energy by speaking them aloud so another person can know them. ↗

— Molly Friedenfeld

#joy #kindness #love #peace #positive-thoughts

According to Aristophanes in Plato's The Banquet, in the ancient world of legend there were three types of people. In ancient times people weren't simply male or female, but one of three types : male/male, male/female or female/female. In other words, each person was made out of the components of two people. Everyone was happy with this arrangment and never really gave it much thought. But then God took a knife and cut everyone in half, right down the middle. So after that the world was divided just into male and female, the upshot being that people spend their time running around trying to locate their missing half. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#thought-provoking #inspirational

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

#book #charm #contains #dwells #echoes

Just because it's broken doesn't mean it loses its importance. ↗

— Jessica Sorensen

#inspirational

Be tough minded but tenderhearted. ↗

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

#independent-thought #inspirational #life #inspirational

I shake my head. I can't imagine living the way he does-always keeping track of who gave me what and what I should give them in return, incapable of love or loyalty or forgiveness, a one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking fr someone else's eye to poke out. That isn't life. It's some paler version of life. I wonder where he learned if from. p. 395 ↗

— Veronica Roth

#forgiveness

If everyone is thinking alike, then no one is thinking. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#freedom-of-thought #individuality #freedom

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#dogma #freedom-of-thought #independent-thought #inspirational #politics