#thought

Let's make progress, not excuses. ↗

— Justin Cotillard

#commitment #cotillard #difference #excuse #excuses

Can I love someone...and still think/fly? Love is flying, sown, floating. Thought is solitary flight, beating wings. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#life #love #thoughts #inspirational

Hatred only tarnishes the soul that carries it. ↗

— D.B. Harrop

#hatred #inspirational #inspirational-quotes #life-lessons #love

If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration. ↗

— Chandan Sharma

#book #confidence #human #inspirational #life

If you had to pack your whole life into a suitcase-not just the practical things, like clothing, but the memories of the people you had lost and the girl you had once been-what would you take? ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#inspirational #sad #thought-provoking #inspirational

He’d only ever seen a gun once, a smaller one on the hip of that old deputy, a gun he’d always figured was more for show. He stuffed a fistful of deadly rounds in his pocket, thinking how each one could end an individual life, and understanding why such things were forbidden. Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way. ↗

— Hugh Howey

#inspirational #killing #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

[Men] use thought only to justify their wrong-doings, and words only to conceal their thoughts. ↗

— Voltaire

#thoughts #words #men

Most men either compromise or drop their greatest talents and start running after, what they perceive to be, a more reasonable success, and somewhere in between they end up with a discontented settlement. Safety is indeed stability, but it is not progression. ↗

— Criss Jami

#consistency #contentment #determination #discontentment #finite

Stripe felt frozen. To be so high and not high at all! It only looked good from the bottom. ↗

— Trina Paulus

#thought-provoking #inspirational