#wisdo

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

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

If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #proverv #wisdom #change

Who can play without wanting to succeed even with a sentimentally gain? ↗

— Sorin Cerin

#inspirational

We are not wise; we are wise to seek divine wisdom. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

#divine-intuition #quotes-to-live-by #wisdom #death

Freedom of action is disguised as a freedom of discipline. ↗

— Warren Cassell Jr.

#personal-growth #wisdom #freedom

You’ve got choices, like any other creature. You can stumble down that road, pretending you can’t help it. You can curl up and die of regret and sorrow for what you’ve done. Or you can get up and fight, even though the battle might be lost.-Finn ↗

— Kersten Hamilton

#inspirational

When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as an individual, only then we will have released "ourselves" from our own imprisonment. We are in charge of our own life's destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures; not by what others may think of us. ↗

— (Dahveed) D. A. Isley

#wisdom #inspirational

And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#inspirational #responsibility #wisdom #inspirational

Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit, since it is sure to bring a season of sober reflection. People see clearer at such times. Storms purify the atmosphere. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#inspirational #life #wisdom #inspirational