#insightful

I care little for titles assigned to men, rather I care about the spirit of men. ↗

— Paul erik Van Schaick

#men

I used to think the world was broken down by tribes,' I said. 'By Black and White. By Indian and White. But I know this isn't true. The world is only broken into two tribes: the people who are assholes and the people who are not. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#insightful #inspirational #insult #humor

Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best ↗

— Lil Wayne

#inspirational #motivational #inspirational

Life’s easy. It’s living it that’s difficult. ↗

— Mike Sasso

#insightful #inspirational #life #oblique #obvious

But virtue, by the bare statement of its actions, can so affect men's minds as to create at once both admiration of the things done and desire to imitate the doers of them. The goods of fortune we would possess and would enjoy; those of virtue we long to practise and exercise. We are content to receive the former from others, the latter we wish others to experience from us. Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen, than it inspires an impulse to practice, and influences the mind and character not by a mere imitation which we look at, but by the statement of the fact creates a moral purpose which we form. ↗

— Plutarch

#experience

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead. ↗

— Ann Packer

#fathers-and-daughters #insightful #age

...just remember, darling, it is pain that changes our lives. ↗

— Steve Martin

#inspirational #thoughtful #change

In as much time as it takes to smoke a cigarette, a person's life was changed forever. ↗

— Karen McQuestion

#life-lessons #change

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#cyberpunk #elven-charm #humankind #insightful #life

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#love