#provoking

Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us. ↗

— Nina Guilbeau

#life-lessons #self-help #self-improvement #thought-provoking #thoughtful

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

An idea weighs nothing, except on the mind. ↗

— A.T. Baron

#imagination #inspirational #thought-provoking #imagination

To which hand do I choose to strike with when both hands are guided by the same heart? ↗

— Carroll Bryant

#inspirational #inspiring #philosophical #religious #thought-provoking

If these self-anointed leaders did not keep the people aroused with calls to preserve the Revolution, or to defend it from one imaginary foe after another, then the people might shake themselves awake from the trance they were in and begin to question the very men who had drenched their streets in blood and make France pariah among the civilized nations of the world. ↗

— Robert Masello

#men

You yourself may not be luminous, but you are a conductor of light. ↗

— Arthur Conan Doyle

#thought-provoking #intelligence