11 Quotes Tagged: inpirational

The joy of life is living, is to put out all one's powers as far as they will go; that the measure of power is obstacle overcome; to ride boldly at what is in front of you, be it fence or enemy; to pray, not for comfort, but for combat; to keep the soldier's faith against the doubts of civil life, more besetting and harder to overcome than all the misgivings of the battle-field, and to remember that duty is not to be proved in the evil day, but then to be obeyed unquestioning; to love glory than the temptations of wallowing ease, but to know that one's final judge and only rival is oneself: with all our failures in act and thought, these things we learned from noble enemies in Virginia or Georgia or on the Mississippi, thirty years ago; these things we believe to be true.

Never let them stop you from telling the story you want to tell.

i can only

give to you

what i have already

given to myself

i can only

understand

the world as much as

i understand myself

chew on one thinker-writer, activist, role model- you really love. Study everything there is to know about that thinker. Then find three people the thinker loved and find out everything about them. Repeat this as many times as you can. Climb up the tree as far as you can go. Once you built your tree, it's time to start your own branch.

If you hold fast to what's true and right and just, things work out.

I'd prefer to have dangerous freedom,
than have peaceful slavery

...not doing what we love in the name of greed is very poor management of our lives.

What if I told you that damage doesn't define you and the way you survive is no one else's business?

Your most powerful method of helping other people is to help yourself.

The faster you move, the slower time passes, the longer you live.

Although my mother didn't know anything about science, she had a great influence on me as well. In particular, she had a wonderful sense of humor, and I learned from her that the highest form of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion