#z

Because she looks to the sky so often, people think that her life is sweet, that her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. But quite the opposite is true and I wish they could see— she looks up so much because all around her it's hard to see without breaking her heart. She once saw in a movie a window sign that said "We're all in the gutter; but some of us are looking at the stars." From that movie onwards, she decided to look up! Doesn't mean her life is sweet, doesn't mean her eyes are dotted with dreamy stars. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#inspirational-life #inspirational-quotes #life #life-quotes #look-up-to-the-stars

We took a bus to the nearby monastery of one of the last great Tang dynasty Chan masters, Yun-men. Yun-men was known for his pithy “one word” Zen. When asked “What is the highest teaching of the Buddha?” he replied: “An appropriate statement.” On another occasion, he answered: “Cake.” I admired his directness. ↗

— Stephen Batchelor

#humour #inspirational #zen #inspirational

Of course, I am interested, but I would not dare to talk about them. In talking about the impact of ideas in one field on ideas in another field, one is always apt to make a fool of oneself. In these days of specialization there are too few people who have such a deep understanding of two departments of our knowledge that they do not make fools of themselves in one or the other. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#learning #self-awareness #specialization #thought-provoking #inspirational

Everyone has a story. I don't believer anyone can go through life without encountering at least one amazing thing. ↗

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#inspirational #one-amazing-thing #inspirational

Kadehlerimizi tokuşturup rakılarımızı yudumladık. "Fezai Bey sevgilimin uzaylı olduğunu iddia ediyor," dedim. "Bütün kadınlar öyledir," dedi Kız Tevfik. "Seninki hariç," dedi Tahtakafa. "Seninki, bildiğin orospu." "Uzaylı orospu olmaz diye bir kanun mu var?" şeklinde beklemediğim derecede sakin bir karşılık verdi Kız Tevfik, Bafra'nın dumanını efkârla üflerken. "Ne yapsın? Kader kurbanı işte. ↗

— Alper Canıgüz

#humor-inspirational #inspirational

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process. ↗

— Michele Rosenthal

#healing #inspirational #self-awareness #self-realization #inspirational

Our idea is simply to play the songs and to emphasize our musicianship. ↗

— Krist Novoselic

#idea #musicianship #our #play #simply

Los resultados que obtenemos en un deporte, en el estudio de determinada materia, en oratoria, en debates y hasta en relaciones humanas y amorosas están determinados por nuestras últimas experiencias. El que sufrió un revés, cree erróneamente que siempre será así y mantiene esa etiqueta. Es una ley de psicología: toda información nueva, al penetrar en la mente, tiende a sustituir la información antigua relacionada con el mis tema. Así, la clave para ser diestro en algo no es sólo practicar cuando sale bien sino intentarlo una y otra vez cuando sale mal… Un hombre vale no por los triunfos que ha acumulado sino por las veces que se ha levantado de sus fracasos. ↗

— Carlos Cuauhtémoc Sánchez

#inspirational #success #inspirational

A civilization can easily drown in what it knows as in what doesn't know. Consider,' he continued, Gotho's Folly. Gotho's curse was in being too aware - of everything. Every permutation, every potential. Enough to poison every scan he cast on the world. It availed him naught, and worse, he was aware of even that. ↗

— Steven Erikson

#inspiration #intelligence #knowledge #malazan #malazan-book-of-the-fallen

Eski zamanları hatırlayın. Perilere layık Büyük Pasta'nın yapıldığı zamanları; sadece kuyruk ısırandan korkan ejderhaları, kötü kralları, topraklarınızda gezinen devleri, azalmaya başlayan şövalyeler dönemini. Ve siz elinizde eski ve üzerinde yazılar bulunan bir kılıçla ejderha avlamak zorunda kalırsanız.. Yaprakları ağaçtan daha iyi resmeden türden bir ressamsanız.. Yağmurlu, rüzgarlı ve gün ışığının da çekip gittiği bir gece, odanızın içinde açan bir sarmaşık yaprağının sesini duyarsanız.. Elinizi beyaz kabuğuna dayadığınız ağaç, bir gün, ''Uzaklara git. Rüzgar senin peşinde. Git ve asla dönme'' derse; Üstünüzde koca bir yorgunluk ve yoksunluk duygusuyla kendinize gelircesine etrafa bakıp, ''Niye yalnızız?'' diye sorarsınız; Küçük bir çocuk elinizi sessizce tutup ''Üzgünüm'' diyecektir. │ J.R.R. Tolkien - Masallar kitabı Altıkırkbeş Yayınları Arka Kapak Yazısı ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#arka-kapak-yazısı #inspirational #masal #inspirational