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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked--as I am surprisingly often--why I bother to get up in the mornings.
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enlightened
sleep
color
meaning
beauty
motivational
inspirational
questions
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Richard Dawkins |
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You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.
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inspirational
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Isabel Allende |
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I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!
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inspirational
attitude
negative
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John Waters |
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Normalness leads to sadness.
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inspirational
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Phil Lester |
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Be where you are, stop over-thinking, and focus on what you are doing.
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focus-on
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
over-thinking
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Roy T. Bennett |
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We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
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inspirational
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Marianne Williamson |
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A gift is pure when it is given from the heart to the right person at the right time and at the right place, and when we expect nothing in return
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inspirational
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Anonymous |
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It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once.
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good
music
love
inspirational
power-of-music
hurt
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Nina LaCour |
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Do not waste time bothering whether you 'love' your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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religious
inspirational
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C. S. Lewis |
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The splendid thing about falling apart silently... is that you can start over as many times as you like.
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silence
profound
life-quotes
positive-thinking
life-lessons
inspirational
failures
falling-apart
life-path
new-beginnings
endings
deep-thoughts
falling
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Sanober Khan |
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Nothing's a better cure for writer's block than to eat ice cream right out of the carton.
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writing
humor
inspirational
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Don Roff |
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Do not let your negative thoughts have power over you because those thoughts will end up controlling your life. No one can live a positive life with a negative mind.
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inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
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Roy T. Bennett |
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I'm beginning to think that maybe it's not just how much you love someone. Maybe what matters is who you are when you're with them.
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love
inspirational
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Anne Tyler |
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Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
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achieve
achieving
meaning
reason
reason-to-live
sacrifice
successful-living
inspiration
inspire
living
motivation
inspiring
motivational
success
life
inspirational
achievement
purpose-in-life
reason-to-breathe
lifestyle
motivate
motivating
ambition
purpose
goals
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Criss Jami |
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Everything changed the day she figured out there was exactly enough time for the important things in her life.
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time
inspirational
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Brian Andreas |
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The amazing thing is that every atom in your body came from a star that exploded. And, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than your right hand. It really is the most poetic thing I know about physics: You are all stardust. You couldn't be here if stars hadn't exploded, because the elements - the carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, iron, all the things that matter for evolution - weren't created at the beginning of time. They were created in the nuclear furnaces of stars, and the only way they could get into your body is if those stars were kind enough to explode. So, forget Jesus. The stars died so that you could be here today.
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universe
inspirational
stardust
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Lawrence M. Krauss |
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If you care about something enough, you'll find a way to make it happen.
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make-things-happen
care-enough
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
optimism
life
inspirational
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Roy T. Bennett |
5d6abf2
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I am no king, and I am no lord
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poe
humor
love
inspirational
lyrics
ending
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Peter S. Beagle |
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When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.
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politics
religion
inspirational
critical-thinking
dogma
freedom-of-thought
independent-thought
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Anaïs Nin |
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Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
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inspirational
uplifting
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Lucy Maud Montgomery |
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"I am no king, and I am no lord, And I am no soldier at-arms," said he. "I'm none but a harper, and a very poor harper, That am come hither to wed with ye." "If you were a lord, you should be my lord, And the same if you were a thief," said she. "And if you are a harper, you shall be my harper, For it makes no matter to me, to me, For it makes no matter to me." "But what if it prove that I am no harper? That I lied for your love most monstrously?" "Why, then I'll teach you to play and sing, For I dearly love a good harp," said she."
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poe
humor
love
inspirational
lyrics
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Peter S. Beagle |
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There is great change to be experienced once you learn the power of letting go. Stop allowing anyone or anything to control, limit, repress, or discourage you from being your true self! Today is YOURS to shape - own it - break free from people and things that poison or dilute your spirit.
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action
motivational
success
life
inspirational
seize-the-day
self-empowerment
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Steve Maraboli |
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WATNEY: Look! A pair of boobs! -> (.Y.).
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science
humor
inspirational
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Andy Weir |
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Maybe you think you'll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn't work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It's by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.
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unhappiness
living
happiness
inspirational
waiting
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Ann Brashares |
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You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.
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success
inspirational
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Michael Jordan |
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You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without action upon an idea, there will be no manifestation, no results, and no reward
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toltec-wisdom
wisdom
inspirational
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Don Miguel Ruiz |
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Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
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living
inspirational
yoga
lifestyle
meditation
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Amit Ray |
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By declaring that man is responsible and must actualize the potential meaning of his life, I wish to stress that the true meaning of life is to be discovered in the world rather than within man or his own psyche, as though it were a closed system. I have termed this constitutive characteristic "the self-transcendence of human existence." It denotes the fact that being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself--be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter. The more one forgets himself--by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love--the more human he is and the more he actualizes himself. What is called self-actualization is not an attainable aim at all, for the simple reason that the more one would strive for it, the more he would miss it. In other words, self-actualization is possible only as a side-effect of self-transcendence.
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inspirational
psychology
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Viktor E. Frankl |
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Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
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happiness
inspirational
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Aeschylus |
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To write is human, to edit is divine.
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inspirational
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Stephen King |
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I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.
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inspirational
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Wally Lamb |
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life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity, & stumble from defeat to defeat.
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inspirational
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anaïs nin |
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Go for it, while you can. I know you have it in you. And I can't promise you'll get everything you want, but I can promise nothing will change if you don't try.
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sempre
life
inspirational
risks
promises
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J.M. Darhower |
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My only regrets are the moments when i doubted myself and took the safe route. Life is too short to waste time being unhappy.
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dan-howell
danisnotonfire
happiness
life
inspirational
youtube
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Dan Howell |
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I was born into Bolivar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.
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inspirational
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John Green |
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When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
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musician
confidence
wisdom
inspirational
dreaming
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Michael Jackson |
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Give me the Love that leads the wa
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prayer
god
love
inspirational
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Amy Carmichael |
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I don't chase after anyone, If you wanna walk out of my life, then I'll hold the fucking door open for you.
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life
inspirational
haters
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Wiz Khalifa |
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Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.
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divine-works
god-like
sympathy
worth
jesus
empathy
compassion
faith
life
inspirational
consideration
good-works
works
divine-love
unconditional-love
the-one
christ-like
giving
helping-others
value
poor
beautiful
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Criss Jami |
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Those three things - autonomy, complexity, and a connection between effort and reward - are, most people will agree, the three qualities that work has to have if it is to be satisfying.
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inspirational
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Malcolm Gladwell |
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To those who will see, the world waits.
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inspirational
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Libba Bray |
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No Differenc
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inspirational
joining
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Shel Silverstein |
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I think the reason we sometimes have the false sense that God is so far away is because that is where we have put him. We have kept him at a distance, and then when we are in need and call on him in prayer, we wonder where he is. He is exactly where we left him.
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prayer
religion
god
inspirational
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Ravi Zacharias |
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The trick is to enjoy life. Don't wish away your days, waiting for better ones ahead.
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life
inspirational
enjoy-life
carpe-diem
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Marjorie Pay Hinckley |
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Destiny is real. And she's not mild-mannered. She will come around and hit you in the face and knock you over and before you know what hit you, you're naked- stripped of everything you thought you knew and everything you thought you didn't know- and there you are! A bloody nose, bruises all over you, and naked. And it's the most beautiful thing.
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spirit
beauty
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
living
destiny
happiness
life
truth
inspirational
belief-quotes
life-experience
belief
beautiful
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C. JoyBell C. |
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Let go of something old that no longer serves you to make room for something new.
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letting-go
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
|
Roy T. Bennett |
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The most exquisite paradox... as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible.
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inspirational
spiritual-wisdom
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ram dass |
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Where you stumble and fall, there you will find gold.
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inspirational
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Joseph Campbell |
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I consider myself a stained-glass window. And this is how I live my life. Closing no doors and covering no windows; I am the multi-colored glass with light filtering through me, in many different shades. Allowing light to shed and fall into many many hues. My job is not to direct anything, but only to filter into many colors. My answer is destiny and my guide is joy. And there you have me.
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humanism
freedom
spirit
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
living
destiny
inspiring
happiness
life
inspirational
stained-glass-window
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C. JoyBell C. |
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When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.
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inspirational
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Zig Ziglar |
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Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it.
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trying
change
inspirational
self-confidence
self-esteem
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Tina Fey |
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Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.
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inspirational
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Malala Yousafzai |
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There's a hunger for stories in all of us, adults too. We need stories so much that we're even willing to read bad books to get them, if the good books won't supply them.
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books
inspirational
companionship
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Philip Pullman |
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
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inspirational
excellence
attitude
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John Wooden |
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What did you do?" I mumble. He is just a few feet away from me now, but not close enough to hear me. As he passes me he stretches out his hand. He wraps it around my palm and squeezes. Squeezes, then lets go. His eyes are bloodshot; he is pale. "What did you do?" This time the question tears from my throat like a growl. I throw myself toward him, struggling against Peter's grip, though his hands chafe. "What did you do?" I scream. "You die, I die too" Tobias looks over his shoulder at me. "I asked you not to do this. You made your decision. These are the repercussions.
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beatrice-prior
dauntless
erudite
inspirational
brave
insurgent
tobias-eaton
tobias
tris-prior
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Veronica Roth |
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Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
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stars
morality
inspirational
awe
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Immanuel Kant |
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It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything.
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inspirational
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Nick Vujicic |
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The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
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literature
inspirational
ink
blood
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T.S. Eliot |
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There is no failure except in no longer trying.
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success
inspirational
giving-up
failure
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Elbert Hubbard |
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Everything you want is on the other side of fear.
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fear
inspirational
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Jack Canfield |
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The life given us, by nature is short; but the memory of a well-spent life is eternal.
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immortality
inspirational
fame
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Marcus Tullius Cicero |
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One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.
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change
inspirational
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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There is no more profitable investment than investing in yourself. It is the best investment you can make; you can never go wrong with it. It is the true way to improve yourself to be the best version of you and lets you be able to best serve those around you.
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invest-in-yourself
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
|
Roy T. Bennett |
40a17d1
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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
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|
best-books
happin
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
life-quotes
motivation
life-lessons
life
wisdom
inspirational
excellence
motivational-quotes
good-books
life-experience
life-philosophy
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Bohdi Sanders |
7b9dc49
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Find the things that matter, and hold on to them, and fight for them, and refuse to let them go.
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lauren-oliver
romance
love
inspirational
delirium
novels
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Lauren Oliver |
1e73341
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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writing
inspirational
creativity
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Henry David Thoreau |
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Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.
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inspirational
problems
growth
gift
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Anthony Robbins |
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In a strong relationship, you should love your companion more than you need them.
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relationship
love
inspirational
need
|
Steve Maraboli |
8f02eb4
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I've gotta get out of the basement. I've gotta see the world. I've gotta make a difference
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inspirational
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Gerard Way |
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Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.
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inspirational
albert-einstein
einstein
loner
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Albert Einstein |
d9a0f2d
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Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and to whatever abysses nature leads, or you shall learn nothing. I have only begun to learn content and peace of mind since I have resolved at all risks to do this.
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abyss
risk
nature
learning
science
inspirational
preconceptions
open-minded
peace-of-mind
preparation
humble
facts
peace
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Thomas Huxley |
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Everything stinks till it's finished.
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humor
inspirational
|
Dr. Seuss |
d65022c
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Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go.
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inspirational
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James Baldwin |
c594e33
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You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.
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past
inspiration
change
hope
life
inspirational
|
Ann Brashares |
44a7992
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A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
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action
inspirational
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Henrik Ibsen |
ed6a785
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inspirational
|
???? ??? ????? |
a84e05d
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I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.
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feminism
inspirational
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Dolly Parton |
a9b54c6
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I'm starting with the man in the mirror
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|
inspirational
|
Michael Jackson |
e0f06ce
|
The truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth.
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truth
inspirational
|
Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi |
7f686fe
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The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.
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work
inspirational
encouragement
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
6308393
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The motive behind criticism often determines its validity. Those who care criticize where necessary. Those who envy criticize the moment they think that they have found a weak spot.
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bad-intentions
spot
validity
criticism
kindness
inspirational
good-intentions
necessary
intentions
envy
purity
weakness
sincerity
motives
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Criss Jami |
9678a15
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You enter the fores
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|
life
inspirational
way
|
Joseph Campbell |
74cf893
|
If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.
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|
lessons
thoughts
life
love
inspirational
perspective
self
|
Nayyirah Waheed |
6e68224
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Rise to the occassion which is life!
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|
life
inspirational
|
Virginia Euwer Wolff |
02afa47
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Realize deeply that the present moment is all you will ever have.
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time
life
inspirational
|
Eckhart Tolle |
708532d
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I am so, so alive.
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the-scorpio-races
inspirational
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Maggie Stiefvater |
64c4100
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Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.
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hope
inspirational
|
Martin Luther |
86634cd
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People would rather believe than know.
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inspirational
activism
environment
animals
|
Edward O. Wilson |
f8eef81
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It's your life-but only if you make it so.
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inspirational
|
Eleanor Roosevelt |
ad61135
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Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.
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inspirational
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Eleanor Roosevelt |
8ac8e69
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Finding one important thing in your life doesn't mean you have t
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
0535159
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The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.
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inspirational
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross |
32c8cc4
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It's not that some people have willpower and some don't... It's that some people are ready to change and others are not.
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motivation
change
inspirational
|
James Gordon |
10e690b
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If you are not the hero of your own story, then you're missing the whole point of your humanity.
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|
story
humanity
motivational
success
happiness
life
inspirational
hero
|
Steve Maraboli |
b5cc4c2
|
You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.
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inspirational
|
Chris Colfer |
ddec5d8
|
To overcome fear is the quickest way to gain your self-confidence.
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|
fear
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-and-living
life-quotes
living
motivation
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
motivational
life-lessons
optimism
life
inspirational
self-confidence
|
Roy T. Bennett |
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Sometimes I go to God and say, "God, if Thou dost never answer another prayer while I live on this earth, I will still worship Thee as long as I live and in the ages to come for what Thou hast done already. God's already put me so far in debt that if I were to live one million millenniums I couldn't pay Him for what He's done for me.
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god
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truth
inspirational
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the-truth
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ages
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A.W. Tozer |
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Men and women who turn their lives over to God will discover that He can make a lot more out of their lives than they can. He can deepen their joys, expand their vision, quicken their minds, strengthen their muscles, lift their spirits, multiply their blessings, increase their opportunities, comfort their soals, and pour out peace.
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faith
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Ezra Taft Benson |
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Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
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educator
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Helen Keller |
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Try, reach, want, and you may fall. But even if you do, you might be okay anyway
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Ann Brashares |
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When you chase a dream, you learn about yourself. You learn your capabilities and limitations, and the value of hard work and persistence.
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Nicholas Sparks |
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She's a woman, you're a dude. You're not to understand her. That's what she's after.... She doesn't want you to understand . She knows impossible. She just wants you to understand . Everything else is negotiable.
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understanding
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understanding-oneself-and-others
men-and-women
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Neal Stephenson |
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Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.
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comfort
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pride-and-prejudice
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Jane Austen |
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perfection
inspirational
perfectionism
body-image
self-love
eating-disorders
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Ellen Hopkins |
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Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.
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management
leadership
inspirational
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John C Maxwell |
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A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
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learning
inspirational
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Sophocles |
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All worthy work is open to interpretations the author did not intend. Art isn't your pet -- it's your kid. It grows up and talks back to you.
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humour
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interpretation
art
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Joss Whedon |
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No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope
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life
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Zayn Malik |
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You think of yoursel
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iran
rumi
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Rumi |
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A dog has no use for fancy cars or big homes or designer clothes. Status symbol means nothing to him. A waterlogged stick will do just fine. A dog judges others not by their color or creed or class but by who they are inside. A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated or illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. As I wrote that farewell column to Marley, I realized it was all right there in front of us, if only we opened our eyes. Sometimes it took a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see.
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John Grogan |
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All I ask is this: Do something. Try something. Speaking out, showing up, writing a letter, a check, a strongly worded e-mail. Pick a cause - there are few unworthy ones. And nudge yourself past the brink of tacit support to action. Once a month, once a year, or just once...Even just learning enough about a subject so you can speak against an opponent eloquently makes you an unusual personage. Start with that. Any one of you would have cried out, would have intervened, had you been in that crowd in Bashiqa. Well thanks to digital technology, you're all in it now.
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inspirational
taking-action
cause
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Joss Whedon |
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I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going, because they were holding on to something.
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beauty
truth
inspirational
lord-of-the-rings
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Peter Jackson |
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I keep thinking about a tale my nurse used to read to me about a bird whose wings are pinned to the ground. In the end, when he finally frees himself, he flies so high he becomes a star. My nurse said the story was about how we all have something that keeps us down.
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inspirational
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Shannon Hale |
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Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.
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inspirational
self-help
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Mark Manson |
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When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead.
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humor
inspirational
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Barney Stinson |
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Our opportunities to give of ourselves are indeed limitless, but they are also perishable. There are hearts to gladden. There are kind words to say. There are gifts to be given. There are deeds to be done. There are souls to be saved
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inspirational
way-to-be
lds
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Thomas S. Monson |
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Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.
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inspirational
running
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Dean Karnazes |
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Many of us are slaves to our minds. Our own mind is our worst enemy. We try to focus, and our mind wanders off. We try to keep stress at bay, but anxiety keeps us awake at night. We try to be good to the people we love, but then we forget them and put ourselves first. And when we want to change our life, we dive into spiritual practice and expect quick results, only to lose focus after the honeymoon has worn off. We return to our state of bewilderment. We're left feeling helpless and discouraged. It seems we all agree that training the body through exercise, diet, and relaxation is a good idea, but why don't we think about training our minds?
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spiritual
inspirational
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Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche |
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If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it.
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inspirational
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Toni Morrison |
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A Nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but it's lowest ones
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struggle
freedom
politics
inspirational
revolution
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Nelson Mandela |
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One must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.
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motivational
inspirational
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Elizabeth Gilbert |
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The best love in the world, is the love of a man. The love of a man who came from your womb, the love of your son! I don't have a daughter, but maybe the love of a daughter is the best, too. I am first and foremost me, but right after that, I am a mother. The best thing that I can ever be, is me. But the best gift that I will ever have, is being a mother.
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the-greatest-gift
the-love-of-a-son
true-love
inspirational-quotes
inspiring
love
inspirational
mothers-and-sons
real-love
mothers
mother
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dicta
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Robert Greene |
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But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine
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faith
inspirational
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Jim Butcher |
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Your complaints, your drama, your victim mentality, your whining, your blaming, and all of your excuses have NEVER gotten you even a single step closer to your goals or dreams. Let go of your nonsense. Let go of the delusion that you DESERVE better and go EARN it! Today is a new day!
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action
earn-it
new-day
excuses
victim-mentality
dreams
motivational
inspirational
blaming
complaints
whining
goals
let-go
drama
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Steve Maraboli |
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Tearing down the rest of the world won't make you happy. Look inside yourself. Because finding who you were meant to be? What you were put into this world to do? That's what fills the emptiness. It's the only things that can.
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inspirational
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A.G. Howard |
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He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.
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insult
rage
inspirational
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Brigham Young |
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A bird is safe in its nest - but that is not what its wings are made for.
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true-purpose
inspirational-quotes
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
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Amit Ray |
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There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
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inspirational
effectiveness
activism
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Henry David Thoreau |
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How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
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profound
inspirational
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Craig Thompson |
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Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude
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inspirational
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Arthur Schopenhauer |
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This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief.
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life
philosophy
inspirational
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Rumi |
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Wait long enough and people will surprise and impress. When you're pissed off at someone and you're angry at them, you just haven't given them enough time. Just give them a little more time and they almost always will impress you.
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inspirational
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Randy Pausch |
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She liked being reminded of butterflies. She remembered being six or seven and crying over the fates of the butterflies in her yard after learning that they lived for only a few days. Her mother had comforted her and told her not to be sad for the butterflies, that just because their lives were short didn't mean they were tragic. Watching them flying in the warm sun among the daisies in their garden, her mother had said to her, see, they have a beautiful life. Alice liked remembering that.
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life
inspirational
butterflies
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Lisa Genova |
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But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much money you put on the little plate. It isn't about going skyclad to the Holy Rites, or meditating each day upon the divine. Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the good of others - even when there's not going to be anyone telling you what a hero you are.
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inspirational
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Jim Butcher |
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Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.
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character
inspirational
talent
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John C. Maxwell |
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Argue for your limitations and, sure enough, they're yours.
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spiritual
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Richard Bach |
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No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.
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travel
inspirational
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Patrick Rothfuss |
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Maybe your country is only a place you make up in your own mind. Something you dream about and sing about. Maybe it's not a place on the map at all, but just a story full of people you meet and places you visit, full of books and films you've been to. I'm not afraid of being homesick and having no language to live in. I don't have to be like anyone else. I'm walking on the wall and nobody can stop me.
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anchoring
individuality
self-determination
independence
self-awareness
empowerment
inspirational
country
self-assurance
self-sufficiency
self-trust
self-containment
homelessness
belonging
self-reliance
nationality
attachment
roots
home
self-respect
self-esteem
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Hugo Hamilton |
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Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.
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death
inspirational
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Leo Tolstoy |
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To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest.
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lies
poetry
inspirational
abuse
abusers
perpetrators
innocent
victims
survivors
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Flora Jessop |
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Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead.
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inspirational
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Paula White |
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You can only be afraid of what you think you know.
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fear
inspirational
knowledge
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