How young I seem; I am exceptional;I think of all I have.But really no one is exceptional,No one has anything, I'm anybody,I stand beside my graveConfused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary.
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Quote:- How, in such an alien and inhuman world, can so powerless a creature as man preserve his aspirations untarnished? A strange mystery it is that nature, omnipotent but blind, in the revolutions of her secular hurryings through the abysses of space, has brought forth at last a child, subject still to her power, but gifted with sight, with knowledge of good and evil, with the capacity of judging all the works of his unthinking mother. In spite of death, the mark and seal of the parental control, man is yet free, during his brief years, to examine, to criticize, to know, and in imagination to create. To him alone, in the world with which he is aquainted, this freedom belongs; and in this lies his superiority to the resistless forces that control his outward life.
Author:- Bertrand Russell
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- However it might be viewed, the throttled Earth--the scalped, the mined, the industrially farmed, the drilled, polluted, and suctioned land, endlessly manipulated for further development and profit -- is now our home. We know the wounds. We have come to accept them. And we ask, many of us, What will the next step be?
Author:- Barry Lopez
Category:- science
Quote:- However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man's abode; the snow melts before its door as early in the spring. I do not see but a quiet mind may live as contentedly there, and have as cheering thoughts, as in a palace.
Walden
Author:- Henry David Thoreau
Category:- inspiration,motivational
Quote:- However self-sufficient we may fancy ourselves, we exist only in relation -- to our friend, family, and life partners; to those we teach and mentor; to our co-workers, neighbors, strangers; and even to forces we cannot fully conceive of, let alone define. In many ways, we are our relationships.
Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth
Author:- Derrick Bell
Category:- Relationships
Quote:- However well we got to know each other, there was always a magic. A mystery. We could lie in bed looking silently at each other, not needing to speak. Joe's eyes were never boring. He was never boring.
The Party Crasher
Author:- Sophie Kinsella
Category:- Love
Quote:- However, he wrote some verses on her, and very pretty they were. And so ended his affection, said Elizabeth impatiently. There has been many a one, I fancy, overcome in the same way. I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love! I have been used to consider poetry as the food of love, said Darcy. Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away.
Pride and Prejudice
Author:- Jane Austen
Category:- poetry
Quote:- However, I don’t understand why people insist on pitting the concepts of evolution and creation against each other. Why can’t they see that spiritualism and science are one? That bodies evolve and souls evolve and the universe is a fluid place that marries them both in a wonderful package called a human being. What’s wrong with that idea?
The Art of Racing in the Rain
Author:- Garth Stein
Category:- science
Quote:- However, if it is not viewed as an academic discipline, it might be different. In philosophy, things such as reality, knowledge, the significance of things, and morality are questioned, and since these things pretty much ask about life, every living being would probably have asked at least one philosophical question, because if a person is living, why would they not question their own lives? This could especially be the case with young children, who can ask questions such as How come adults can stay up late while I can’t? or How do you know that God exists? (And adults somehow think that us kids have less complex thoughts!) In these cases, a person questioning his/her life is trying to satisfy his/her OWN need to learn something, which is pretty much what Aurelius was trying to say. For the first question, How come adults can stay up late while I can’t?, the hypothetical child is questioning the purposes of children and adults, and how they contrast, which makes it a philosophical question, but the child pursued it not because he/she was assigned to do it, but because the question applied to his/her OWN life. The child might have noticed that the parents were able to stay up watching two hours of TV at 8:00 pm while being asked to go back to bed, and knew that the question should be asked during this point in his/her own life.
The Reformation
Author:- Lucy Carter
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- However, inspiration may also refer to secretly informing someone of something. In the Qur'an, Allah gives us the example of the mother of Moses (عليه السّلام). She became very distressed when Moses was born because at that time, Pharaoh was killing all of the baby boys born to the Children of Israel. She was very worried and confused, not knowing how to protect him. Allah (سبحانه وتعالى) inspired into her heart and mind the action she should take.
Psychology from the Islamic Perspective
Author:- Aisha Utz
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- Huh," Anaca said, "I always thought of pixies having wings and looking less like kittens.
Defenders and the Water of Florence
Author:- Serena Archer
Category:- science
Quote:- Human evolution is essentially the progression of information gathering (knowledge) and consciousness, or the advancement in wisdom. A wise person is willing to learn at all stages of life by using their cognitive abilities open-mindedly to examine contradictory beliefs, and rationally meld various schools of thought into a living philosophy, developing over time a logical and systematic method to maintain and evaluate oneself in order to assist a person not merely survive but thrive.
Dead Toad Scrolls
Author:- Kilroy J. Oldster
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Human eyes have not yet reached as far as they can go with a telescope, nor have they seen everything there is to see with a microscope.
Author:- Omer Toledano
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- Human forgiveness is 5 things:1. I won’t seek revenge on you.2. I won’t remind you of who your really are.3. I won’t treat you the way you treated me.4. I will release the pain as opportunities allow.5. I won’t let your actions shape my character.It does NOT mean:1. I have to Trust you again.2. I approve of your actions.3. Your character is a reflection of me.4. I am weak.5. My hope lies within you.
Author:- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
Category:- hope
Quote:- Human forgiveness is 5 things:1. I won’t seek revenge on you.2. I won’t remind you of who your really are.3. I won’t treat you the way you treated me.4. I will release the pain as opportunities allow.5. I won’t let your actions shape my character.It does not mean:1. I have Trust you again.2. I approve of your actions.3. Your character is a reflection of me.4. I am weak5. My hope lies within you.
Author:- VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis
Category:- hope
Quote:- Human history is full of accomplishments that were once labeled absurd and impossible
Author:- Constance Friday
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Human history is full of accomplishments that were once labelled absurd and impossible
Author:- Constance Friday
Category:- motivational