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Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#fear #inaction #just-do-it #risk #timidity

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#dangerous #enough #forth #go #missionaries

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play. ↗

— Alan Wilson Watts

#play #work #life

Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life." "I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think. ↗

— Jane Austen

#lizzy #people #thoughts #life

My life isn’t theories and formulae. It’s part instinct, part common sense. Logic is as good a word as any, and I’ve absorbed what logic I have from everything and everyone… from my mother, from training as a ballet dancer, from Vogue magazine, from the laws of life and health and nature. ↗

— Audrey Hepburn

#inspiration #life #inspirational

Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#life

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enjoy-life #indolence #live-in-the-moment #life

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#fight #heartbreak #letting-go #life #reality

I wanted to be his life preserver, the thing that would keep him afloat. Instead, he became my anchor. And I’m tired of drowning. ↗

— Amanda Grace

#love #romance #teen #ya #life

You'll be okay. No matter what shape reality takes, you can handle it. ↗

— Shiro Amano

#life #you-can-handle-it #you-ll-be-okay #life