#thought

Success is not only a goal. It is a journey. When you commit yourself to the journey, the goal is surely there to be attained. ↗

— Sakshi Chetana

#positive-thoughts #success #inspirational

The real strength of the rose bush is not in the flowers but in the roots and the branches. ↗

— Dorcas Kareithi

#thought-provoking #inspirational

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

Actual message in letter I mailed: Congrats on getting married! Here’s a hundred-dollar gift certificate to Amazon.com. You could buy something practical, or you could buy 101 copies of my .99 cents ebook. Just kidding—I didn’t mean to imply that buying 101 copies of my book was impractical. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#books #gift-certificate #impractical #insightful #letter

Sometimes we choose the road we follow. And sometimes the road chooses us. ↗

— Richie Singh

#inspirational-life #life #philosophical #thought-provoking #inspirational

Everyone who’s born has come from the sea. Your mother’s womb is just a sea in small. And birds come of seas on eggs. Horses lie in the sea before they’re born. The placenta is the sea. Your blood is the sea continued in your veins. We are the ocean — walking on the land. ↗

— Timothy Findley

#thought-provoking #inspirational

We're merely one tree with various types, shapes and sizes of leaves that all wave differently in the breeze ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#co-operation #compassion #illumination #inspiring-quotes #kindness

You don’t have to stay trapped in your thoughts just because you think them. ↗

— Doug Dillon

#inspiration #mind #mindpower #thinking #thoughts

We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make the world. ↗

— Buddha

#make #our #think #thoughts #world

…he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men [...] In the hush his entrance creates, the excessive courtesy the weary woman behind the counter shows him amplifies his strangeness. He orders coffee quietly and studies the rim of the cup to steady the sliding in his stomach. He had thought, he had read, that from shore to shore all America was the same. He wonders, Is it just these people I’m outside or is it all America? ↗

— John Updike

#angstrom #inspirational #isolation #loneliness #outside