#vic

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand. ↗

— Randy Pausch

#last-lecture #life #randy-pausch #change

You asked me how I, being immortal, survive so many deaths. There is no great secret. You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #page- #death

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway. The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway… You see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it was never between you and them anyway. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#christian-behavior #inspirational #life-lessons #inspirational

He who stands for nothing will fall for anything. ↗

— Alexander Hamilton

#conviction #ignorance #intelligence #stand #strength

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#certainty #life #life

At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by "I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#service #life

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#service #love

Think before you speak. Read before you think. ↗

— Fran Lebowitz

#books #reader #reading #speaking #thinking

The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope. ↗

— Barack Obama

#helping-others #hope #initiative #just-do-it #proactivity

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#rearden #slave #truth #victim #person