#war

Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to. ↗

— Thanhha Lai

#classic #hope #hope-and-despair #insideoutandbackagain #learning

The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding. ↗

— Don Richard Riso

#inspiration #personality-types #self-awareness #self-understanding #wisdom

When the chips are down, you are given the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that’s how you roll. ↗

— Jessica Lave

#life-lessons #star-wars #inspirational

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#world-war-ii #life

There is no conscience in a real war. ↗

— Toba Beta

#life #real #reality #truth #war

An undisciplined mind is a wasted one, which will be reflected in the life of the one who possesses such a mind. ↗

— Stephen Richards

#mindset #stephen-richards #undisciplined-mind #wayward-mind #life

Love is what creates the freedom and relaxation to be who we really are. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#freedom #life #love #relazation #spirituality

Intuition is a capacity of our heart. Our heart is the door to allowing Existence to guide us, instead of being directed by our ideas, desires and expectations. Since the days of Aristotle’s, we have been taught that logic is the only way to reach a solution. But while logic works in a step-by-step-process to reach a solution, intuition simply takes a quantum leap to a solution without any intermediate steps. ↗

— Swami Dhyan Giten

#awareness #existence #intuition #life #love

And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious that the values of women differ very often from the values which have been made by the other sex; naturally this is so. Yet is it the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are "important"; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes "trivial." And these values are inevitably transferred from life to fiction. This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#literature #war #women #life

If you don't like it, Eat me. ↗

— Rae Murphy

#rock-and-roll #warren-zevon #life