Unbetitelt

[lord-taciturn]

It matters not how strait the gate,      How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate,      I am the captain of my soul.

William Ernest Henley, excerpt from ‘Invictus’ (1888)

[introspectivepoet]

I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.

Invictus, William Ernest Henley (via introspectivepoet)

[avalmond]

We don't reach the mountaintop from the mountaintop

Cheryl Strayed, Brave Enough

[wordsnquotes]

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wordsnquotes)

[purplebuddhaproject]

May your choices reflect your hopes, Not your fears.

Nelson Mandela (via purplebuddhaproject)

[enjoy-the-life-baby]

[rebeccashawcaw]

In the darkest times; hope is something you give yourself. That is the meaning of inner strength.

Uncle Iroh (via rebeccashawcaw)

[thatwhichdoesnotsuffer]

Nietzsche said somewhere that when you first meet someone, you know all about him; on subsequent meetings, you blind yourself to your own wisdom.

Love’s Executioner (via thatwhichdoesnotsuffer)

[words-i-love-and-hate]

We are, in the deepest sense, responsible for ourselves. We are, as Sartre put it, the authors of ourselves. Through the accretion of our choices, our actions, and our failures to act, we ultimately design ourselves. We cannot avoid this responsibility, this freedom. In Sartre’s terms, “we are condemned to freedom”.

–Irvin Yalom, MD, from Chapter 45, ‘Freedom’, in The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients (via words-i-love-and-hate)

[quotemadness]

Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.

Irvin D. Yalom (via quotemadness)

[invite-me-to-your-memories]

“I hope,” said Lymond opening the window, “that nothing serious occurs. My intentions are purely frivolous.”

Queen’s Play (via invite-me-to-your-memories)

[invite-me-to-your-memories]

“Lack of genius never held anyone back,” said Lymond. “Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.”

Queen’s Play (via invite-me-to-your-memories)

[thispurepositivity]

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

Nelson Mandela (via thispurepositivity)

[thesuccessrules]

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Nelson Mandela (via thesuccessrules)

[sheisrecovering]

“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.” — Nelson Mandela

[quoteandinspire]

Do not judge me by my success. Judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

Nelson Mandela (via quoteandinspire)

[isra-althibeh-deactivated201711]

Again and again. I could not say this enough. Do not be ashamed of the wars your soul has fought to save itself.