#ow

I think you learn a lot about a country from its art. To me, it's part of the drama of life. It teaches you that there are places, moments and incidents in other cultures that genuinely have a life of their own. ↗

— Michael Palin

#art #country #cultures #drama #genuinely

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason. ↗

— Khaled Hosseini

#reason #sorrow #trial #inspirational

Anger ... it's a paralyzing emotion ... you can't get anything done. People sort of think it's an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling — I don't think it's any of that — it's helpless ... it's absence of control — and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my powers ... and anger doesn't provide any of that — I have no use for it whatsoever." [Interview with CBS radio host Don Swaim, September 15, 1987.] ↗

— Toni Morrison

#control #emotions #inspiration #power #writing

As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#instructional #power-of-thoughts #inspirational

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

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If you believe you can, you might. If you know you can, you will. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#believe #inspirational #knowing #life #motivational

you don't have to worry about burning bridges, if you're building your own ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

#inspirational #ownership #resourcefulness #responsibility #self-help

You can only be afraid of what you think you know. ↗