#surely

To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is! ↗

— Barbara Kingsolver

#another #basic #crying #debris #embrace

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#delight #exaltation #excellence #found #highest

No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable. ↗

— Adam Smith

#far #flourishing #greater #happy #members

Surely if God had meant us to do yoga, he would have put our heads behind our knees. ↗

— Rod Stewart

#god #had #heads #knees #meant

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can and surely will at times fail. Other vulnerabilities, like being embarrassed or risking love, can be terrifying, too. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk. ↗

— Joyce Brothers

#being #embarrassed #fail #follow #hurt

Life can be pulled by goals just as surely as it can be pushed by drives. ↗

— Viktor E. Frankl

#goals #just #life #pulled #pushed

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right. ↗

— Shirley Hazzard

#closer #fact #imagination #intelligence #love

Surely there comes a time when counting the cost and paying the price aren't things to think about any more. All that matters is value - the ultimate value of what one does. ↗

— James Hilton

#any #comes #cost #counting #does

What is at a peak is certain to decline. He who shows his hand will surely be defeated. He who can prevail in battle by taking advantage of his enemy's doubts is invincible. ↗

— Cao Cao

#battle #certain #decline #defeated #doubts

Well, surely, I am not in charge of South Africa. ↗

— Mangosuthu Buthelezi

#am #charge #i #i am #south