#iv

Vision without power does bring moral elevation but cannot give a lasting culture. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#cannot #culture #does #elevation #give

I could die for you. But I couldn't, and wouldn't, live for you. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#die #fountainhead #life #live #mortality

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#carpe-diem #enjoy-life #experience #inspirational #life

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#live

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#evermore #immortals #loss #noel #live

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#fire #star #universe #live

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. ↗

— Soren Kierkegaard

#backwards #forwards #life #lived #must

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#die #fit #live #man #something

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#adversity #character #give #him #man

Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect. ↗

— Margaret Mitchell

#give #life #obligation #under #us