#y

Master: When a human being asks 'WHO AM I?', the honest answer is eternal silence. Disciple: Do we make noise to feel that silence, Master? ↗

— Saurabh Sharma

#inspiration #master #spirituality #wisdom #inspirational

Whenever you've got a choice, do good, kiddo. It isn't always fun or easy, but in the long run it makes your life better. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#bigfoot #bullies #bully #bullying #do-good

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#afraid #all things #cannot #change #dying

I am not a religious man. I have not attended a service for many years. But I do believe in God. My own practice of religion, you could say, it a nonpractice. I personally feel that it's just as worthy on a weekend to rake the lawns of an elderly neighbor or to climb a mountain and marvel at the beauty of this land we live in as it is to sing hosannas or go to Mass. In other words, I think every many finds his own church- and not all of them have four walls - Judge Haig (Page 399) ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#beauty

he would now have comprehended that work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and that play consists of whaterver a body is not obliged to do. And this would help him to understand why construcing artificial flowers or performing on a tread-mill, is work, whilst rolling nine-pins or climbing Mont Blanc is only amusement. There are wealthy gentlemen in England who drive four-horse passenger-coaches twenty or thirty miles on a daily line, in the summer, because the privilege costs them consideralbe money; but if they were offered wages for the service that would turn it into work, then they would resign. ↗

— Mark Twain

#money

Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#asia #conquest #england #europe #great-britain

A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#cold #england #fog #seasons #summer

I’ll trade you one dollar for five dollars. What, is my money no good here?
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— Jarod Kintz

#insult #insulted #insulting #money #money

My friend is going to save a little girl from monsters. I am going with him. That's what friends do. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#harry-dresden #karrin-murphy #change

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#mediocrity #excellence