#thought

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet ↗

— Tupac Shakur

#inspire #pac #rose #thought #inspirational

If no one had ever challenged religious authority, there’d be no democracy, no public schools, women’s rights, improvements to science and medicine, evolution of slavery and no laws against child abuse or spousal abuse. I was afraid to challenge my religious beliefs because that was the basis of creation—mine anyway. I was afraid to question the Bible or anything in it, and when I did, that’s when I became involved with PFLAG and realized that my son was a perfectly normal human being and there was nothing for God to heal because Bobby was perfect just the way he was. ↗

— Mary Griffith

#gay-rights #independent-thought #inspirational #religion #inspirational

Peace of mind arrives the moment you come to peace with the contents of your mind. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#consciousness-raising #inspirational-quotes #joy #letting-go #mindfulness

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn? ↗

— Ann Druyan

#carl-sagan #inspirational #science #theology #thought-provoking

We are the environment. The world is literally one biological process. The trees are our lungs. Look at the Amazon River system next to a human cardiovascular system, look at corals or trees and look at our lungs, you literally cannot tell the difference. They’re the same. So when we destroy our environment, we’re effectively destroying ourselves. ↗

— Ian Somerhalder

#ian-somerhalder #inspiring #thoughtful #inspirational

Things will happen that you can’t prevent, things will fall apart that you can’t hold together, but ultimately you’re shaping yourself and that final product speaks volumes about who you really are, not what people see you as or what you want to be. ↗

— Erik Tomblin

#fear #future #humor #inspirational #life-lessons

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

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all—except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#freedom-of-thought #liberty #libraries #freedom