#provoking

He was a dying man looking down on the surgeons trying to save him. ↗

— John Green

#humor #thought-provoking #death

...People would make the decisions they wished to make and some of them would hurt both themselves and those who loved them, and some would pass unnoticed, while others would bring joy. ↗

— Rachel Joyce

#love

I think a power to do something is of value. Whether the result is a good thing or a bad thing depends on how it is used, but the power is a value. ↗

— Richard P. Feynman

#richard-feynmann #self-value #thought-provoking #values-in-life #inspirational

We choose our next world through what we learn in this one. Learn nothing, and the next world is the same as this one, all the same limitations and lead weights to overcome. ↗

— Richard Bach

#religion #thought-provoking #inspirational

Don't worry about the future, sooner or later it's the past. If they say the feeling's gone then it's time to take it back. ↗

— Meat Loaf

#music #though-provoking #inspirational

There's only one thing a bully respected: bigger bully. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#thought-provoking #inspirational

It was very bad if the council had resorted to recruiting men. By tradition men were our last line of defence, their physical strength bent towards the single and most important task of protecting our homes and children. This meant the council had decided that our only defence was to defeat the enemy, period. Anything else meant the end of Darre. ↗

— N.K. Jemisin

#rational #thought-provoking #inspirational

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’. ↗

— Epictetus

#philosophy #sayings #talk-is-cheap #thought-provoking #wisdom

Simply by living in this particular time and space, you're doing something nearly 100% of all other humans ever never could. Don't waste it. ↗

— Bill Loguidice

#thought-provoking #inspirational

We are all only men, defined by our choices. ↗

— I.E. Castellano

#philosophical #reflective #thought-provoking #inspirational