Jodi Picoult, Nineteen Minutes
If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going....
Tag: inspirational
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
Don’t turn over the rocks if you don’t want to see the pale creatures who live under them....
Kate Forsyth, The Witches of Eileanan
May my heart be kind, my mind fierce, and my spirit brave....
Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
And I think that’s what our world is desperately in need of – lovers, people who are building deep, genuine relationships with fellow strugglers along the way, and who actually know the faces of the people behind the issues they are...
Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root....
Earl Nightingale
Your world is a living expression of how you are using and have used your mind....
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventure of the Greek Interpreter
My dear Watson,” said [Sherlock Holmes], “I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one’s self is as much a departure from truth...
Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked....
Kevin Durant
Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard....
Kazuo Ishiguro
It had never occurred to me that our lives, which had been so closely interwoven, could unravel with such speed....
