If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
— H. G. Wells
Motivational
How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.
"We were making the future," he said, "and hardly any of us troubled to think what future we were making. And here it is!"
Marguerite, joyfully: “We are ourselves, my dear, we are ourselves. Well never be anyone else.”
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is or has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
Great and little cannot understand one another. But in every child born of man, Father Redwood, lurks some seed of greatness — waiting for the Food.
They may fight against greatness in us who are the children of men, but can they conquer? Even if they should destroy us every one, what then? Would it save them? No! For greatness is abroad, not only in us, not only in the Food, but in the purpose of all things! It is in the nature of all things, it is part of space and time. To grow and still to grow, from first to last that is Being, that is the law of life. What other law can there be?
Kipps was unprepared for the unpleasant truth; that the path of social advancement is and must be strewn with broken friendships.
Whatever America has to show in heroic living to-day, I doubt if she can show any thing finer than the quality of the resolve, the steadfast effort hundreds of black and coloured men are making to-day to live blamelessly, honourably, and patiently, getting for themselves what scraps of refinement, learning, and beauty they may, keeping their hold on a civilization they are grudged and denied.
— H. G. Wells
Social Justice