#tru

For thousands of years humans were oppressed— as some of us still are— by the notion that the universe is a marionette whose strings are pulled by a god or gods, unseen and inscrutable. Then, 2,500 years ago, there was a glorious awakening in Ionia: on Samos and the other nearby Greek colonies that grew up among the islands and inlets of the busy eastern Aegean Sea.* Suddenly there were people who believed that everything was made of atoms; that human beings and other animals had sprung from simpler forms; that diseases were not caused by demons or the gods; that the Earth was only a planet going around the Sun. And that the stars were very far away. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#greece #ionia #knowledge #learning #reality

Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here. ↗

— Donald Trump

#donald-trump #inspiration #motivation #positive-thinking #positivity

The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it. ↗

— Karl Marx

#change #ideology #philosophy #resistance #struggle

If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#prejudice #truth #change

Before, I wanted to say: "I found love!" But now, I want to say: "I found a person. And he belongs to me and I belong to him. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#belonging #changing #growing #inspirational #inspirational-love

Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#care #caring #designer #ego #happiness

Hannah's faith was the answer to her stress. And, through that faith, she found peace, even though her life remained far from peaceful. Her faith resulted in God working on her behalf. Hannah did not find peace because she left a stressful situation – she found peace because she had learned to depend on God’s strength to rise above her stress. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#faith #god-s-strength #hannah #peace #stress

You can't get decent Mexican food in DC. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#food

You know you truly love somebody... When they hurt you And you still forgive them And they let you down But you don't leave them And they leave you But you can't help thinking about them ↗

— Mouloud Benzadi

#forgiveness

Women weren't to be trusted. Or forgiven. Men weren't to be trusted either. Not a woman alive would dispute that. ↗

— Margaret Way

#forgiveness #men #trust #women #forgiveness