#inspirational

Women's philanthropic leadership is fundamental to their advancement in society. ↗

— Kay Ballard

#leadership #philanthropy #public-policy #women #inspirational

Oh these dumb dumb dumb Okies, they'll never change, how com-pletely and how unbelievably dumb, the moment it comes time to act, this paralysis, scared, hysterical, nothing frightens em more than what they WANT- it's MY FATHER MY FATER MY FATHER all over again! ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#change

If you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you'll end up miserable. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

#truth #age

If you are not in some way living your life like a Dr. Suess rhyme, than you may in fact be living it wrong. ↗

— Thurman P. Banks Jr.

#attitude

What more could he need, this old man whose little leisure was divided between day-time gardening and night-time contemplation? Was not that narrow space with the sky its ceiling room enough for the worship of God in the most delicate of his works and in the most sublime? A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in -what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#inspirational #life #dreams

There are times that people can be so blinded by what they want IT to be, that whatever reality they perceieve it SHOULD be, they lose. ↗

— Jared Matthew Kessler

#new-age #quote #spiritual #age

Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#happiness #inspirational #life-lessons #motivational #problems

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. ↗

— Anne Lamott

#church #inspirational #music #singing #faith

Sure I am this day we are masters of our fate, that the task which has been set before us is not above our strength; that its pangs and toils are not beyond our endurance. As long as we have faith in our own cause and an unconquerable will to win, victory will not be denied us. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#perseverance #success #victory #faith

If everybody else your age is doing something very different than what you're doing, there's always going to be someone saying to you you might not succeed with it, you might not make any money with that... there's always going to be some type of obstacle in the way. All of those things will go away if you really focus on what makes you happy. ↗

— Kevin Clash

#age