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God is not ecstatic about the lack you are experiencing; He is not delightful over your failures, He is not happy about your stagnancy. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success #success-self-improvement #the-best-option

listen, God is not some little genie or a vending machine. And is not just worth it because he makes your life all better, but He's with you. God wants so much more for your life than fine ↗

— Jim Britts

#religion-christianity #inspirational

From the mud of adversity grows the lotus of joy ↗

— Carolyn Marsden

#hope #inspirational #joy #inspirational

What would I look like if everything that I am, no secrets, was put on paper? Would I be horrifying? ↗

— Jackie Blue

#self-awareness #truth #inspirational

The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox. The florist will sigh and add a wall divider and proper soil to both sides. The grandparent will move the flowerbox halfway out of the sun. The child will turn it around properly so that the fern is in the shade, and not the cactus. The moral of the story? Kids are smart. ↗

— Vera Nazarian

#cactus #child #children #clever #desert

That’s what being alive is, Thing! It’s being badly prepared for everything! Because you only get one chance, Thing! ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#inspiration #life #inspirational

¿Se han preguntado alguna vez qué es lo que convierte en responsables a los hombres? Yo se lo diré: que solo tienen una oportunidad de hacer cada cosa. Si existieran máquinas que nos permitieran corregir hasta nuestros errores más estúpidos viviríamos en un mundo lleno de irresponsables. ↗

— Félix J. Palma

#inspirational #inspirational

The Buddha encouraged people to "know for yourselves that certain things are unwholesome and wrong. And when you do, then give them up. And when you know for yourselves that certain things are wholesome and good, then accept them and follow them." The message is always to examine and see for yourself. When you see for yourself what is true-and that's really the only way that you can genuinely know anything-then embrace it. Until then, just suspend judgment and criticism. ↗

— Steve Hagen

#inspirational-quotes #inspirational

The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love, and in order to occupy and distract himself without love he gives way to passions and coarse pleasures, and sinks to bestiality in his vices, all from continual lying to other men and to himself. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#sin #truth #love

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man. ↗

— Charles Dickens

#men-mars-women-venus #love