#wisdom

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with. ↗

— Robin Hobb

#fear #fitz #mankind #nature #robin-hobb

Trouble is we end up being worse at saying things well. It's got to be an inborn fault. Naturally, everyone's got faults. My biggest fault is that the faults i was born with grow bigger each year. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#truth #wisdom #nature

لولا الألم لكان المرض راحة تحبب الكسل، ولولا المرض لافترست الصحة أجمل نوازع الرحمة في الإنسان، ولولا الصحة لما قام الإنسان بواجب ولا بادر إلى مكرمة، ولولا الواجبات والمكرمات لما كان لوجود الإنسان في هذه الحياة معنى. ↗

— مصطفى السباعي

#human #life #pain #sickness #wisdom

On some such night as this she remembered promising to herself to live as brave and noble a life as any heroine she ever read or heard of in romance, a life sans peur et sans reproche; it had seemed to her then that she had only to will, and such a life would be accomplished. And now she had learnt that not only to will, but also to pray, was a necessary condition in the truly heroic. Trusting to herself, she had fallen. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#heroic #individual-will #noble #prayer #strength

Before the fruits of prosperity can come, the storms of life need to first bring the required rains of testing, which mixes with the seeds of wisdom to produce a mature harvest. ↗

— Lincoln Patz

#life #prosperity #success #testing #trials

The POSITIVE THINKER sees the INVISIBLE, feels the INTANGIBLE, and achieves the IMPOSSIBLE. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#prime-minister #wisdom #life

[Y]ou are here to learn something. Don’t try to figure out what it is. This can be frustrating and unproductive. ↗

— Steven L. Peck

#existentialism #frustration #hell #life #wisdom

To life! There can never be anything more important than life! To life, my friends! ↗

— Mehmet Murat ildan

#life

Si quelques heures font une grande différence dans le cœur de l’homme, faut-il s’en étonner ? Il n’y a qu’une minute de la vie à la mort. ↗

— François-René de Chateaubriand

#love #wisdom #life

Always work to bring Love, Compassion and Wisdom into your life and the lives of those you come in contact with. ↗

— Ian de la Rosa

#life