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68def33
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Let us labor for an inward stillness-
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inspirational
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
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ae0a77a
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Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
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act
acting
actor
actors
adage
adages
animal
animals
aphorism
aphorisms
audacity
axiom
axioms
balls
be-yourself
boldness
brave
bravery
cojones
conform
conforming
conformity
courage
courageous
courageousness
daring
dead
death
deep
dictum
dictums
die
epigram
epigrams
facade
façades
fear
fearful
fearlessness
fit-in
fitting-in
fruit
fruits
gallantry
gnome
gnomes
grit
guts
hardihood
heroism
herself
himself
human
human-being
human-beings
humans
humor
humour
insightful
inspiration
inspirational
inspire
inspired
intrepidity
kill
killed
lemon
lemons
made-me-think
make-you-think
maxim
maxims
motivated
motivational
motive
moxie
murder
murdered
nerve
nonconformity
oneself
orange
people
peoples
person
persons
plant
plants
pluck
pluckiness
pretend
pretender
pretenders
pretending
produce
profound
proverb
proverbs
provoke-thought
quotation
quotations
quote
quotes
satire
satirical
saying
sayings
self
spunk
standing-out
standout
themselves
thought-provoking
thoughtful
tree
trees
true-grit
valour
words-to-live-by
yourself
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Mokokoma Mokhonoana |
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cd23ed9
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No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.
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inspirational
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Jessica Spotswood |
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dc64b59
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Like a missing tooth, sometimes an absence is more noticeable than a presence.
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inspirational
jodi-picoult
lone-wolf
wise
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Jodi Picoult |
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9cab017
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Sameron adion as
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classical-greek
inspirational
music
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Theocritus |
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d44437e
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Adversity is a natural part of being human. It is the height of arrogance to prescribe a moral code or health regime or spiritual practice as an amulet to keep things from falling apart. Things do fall apart. It is in their nature to do so. When we try to protect ourselves from the inevitability of change, we are not listening to the soul. We are listening to our fear of life and death, our lack of faith, our smaller ego's will to prevail. To listen to your soul is to stop fighting with life--to stop fighting when things fall apart; when they don't go our away, when we get sick, when we are betrayed or mistreated or misunderstood. To listen to the soul is to slow down, to feel deeply, to see ourselves clearly, to surrender to discomfort and uncertainty and to wait.
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inspirational
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Elizabeth Lesser |
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b87d542
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...most of the time, all you have is the moment, and the imperfect love of the people around you.
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inspirational
love
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Anne Lamott |
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23e065b
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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
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inspirational
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Hank Green |
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3b96a7c
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Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared
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inspirational
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Cecelia Ahern |
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23288a2
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Until we see each other again, keep your head together, read some good books, be useful, be happy.
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inspirational
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Stephen King |
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d5f6023
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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.... A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.
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inspirational
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Rachel Naomi Remen |
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e538095
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Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.
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advice
inspirational
life
mottos
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Jhumpa Lahiri |
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f6bf012
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It is beautiful to discover our wings and learn how to fly; flight is a beautiful process. But then to rest on the wings of God as He flies: this is divine.
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beautiful
divine
flight
flying
flying-spirit
inspirational
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
wings-of-god
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C. JoyBell C. |
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f5c6c3a
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I wish I had the talent to paint the way I feel about you, for my words always feel inadequate. I imagine using red for your passion and pale blue for your kindness; forest green to reflect the depth of your empathy and bright yellow for your unflagging optimism. And still I wonder: can even an artist's palette capture the full range of what you mean to me?
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inspirational
love
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Nicholas Sparks |
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ce15137
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And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
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angry
dark
defarge
inspirational
ironic
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Charles Dickens |
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7c36087
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Nikolai had been told that hope was dangerous, had been warned of it many times. But he'd never believed that. Hope was the wind that came from nowhere to fill your sails and carry you home.
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hope
inspiration
inspirational
king-of-scars
leigh-bardugo
nikolai-lantsov
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Leigh Bardugo |
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9d7b84b
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In a very real sense we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels
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biology
emotion
inspirational
love
neuropsychology
science
thoughts
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Daniel Goleman |
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b0f1c6b
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Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways--the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die. . It is a terrifying dilemma to be in and to have to live with. The lower animals are, of course, spared this painful contradiction, as they lack a symbolic identity and the self-consciousness that goes with it. They merely act and move reflexively as they are driven by their instincts. If they pause at all, it is only a physical pause; inside they are anonymous, and even their faces have no name. They live in a world without time, pulsating, as it were, in a state of dumb being. This is what has made it so simple to shoot down whole herds of buffalo or elephants. The animals don't know that death is happening and continue grazing placidly while others drop alongside them. The knowledge of death is reflective and conceptual, and animals are spared it. They live and they disappear with the same thoughtlessness: a few minutes of fear, a few seconds of anguish, and it is over. But to live a whole lifetime with the fate of death haunting one's dreams and even the most sun-filled days--that's something else.
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inspirational
nature
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Ernest Becker |
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73c10dd
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If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.
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endurance
faith
inspirational
lds
patience
sanctification
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Sheri L. Dew |
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505df31
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For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but of power and of love and of calm and well balanced mind and discipline and self-control.
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bible
inspirational
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Anonymous |
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e01d239
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I've always been a slow learner in some areas of my life.mostly the areas known as myself. Or maybe I should say 'selves.'because the fact is, I've never, even as a child, felt I'm only one self, only one person. I've always felt I'm quite a few more than one. For example, there's my jokey self, there's my morose and fed-up self,there's my lewd and disgusting self. There's my clever-clogs self, and my fading-violet-who-cant-make-up-her-mind-about-anything self. There's my untidy-clothes-everywhere-all-over-my-room self, and my manically tidy self when I want my room to be minimalist and Zen to the nth degree. There's my confidant, arrogant self and my polite and reasonable and good listener self. There's my self-righteous self and my wickedly bad self, my flaky self and my bsentimental self. There are selfs I like and selfs I don't like.there's my little-girl selfnwhonlikes to play silly games and there's my old-woman self when I'm quite sure I'm eighty and edging towards geriatric
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inspirational
personality
self
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Aidan Chambers |
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ab9c9c3
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Most people think happiness is about gaining something, but it's not. It's all about getting rid of the darkness you accumulate.
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inspirational
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Carolyn Crane |
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e229e02
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I AM THE MASTER OF MY FATE AND THE CAPTAIN OF MY DESTINY.
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inspirational
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Nelson Mandela |
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3e20ec5
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In the end, you feel that your much-vaunted, inexhaustible fantasy is growing tired, debilitated, exhausted, because you're bound to grow out of your old ideals; they're smashed to splinters and turn to dust, and if you have no other life, you have no choice but to keep rebuilding your dreams from the splinters and dust. But the heart longs for something different! And it is vain to dig in the ashes of your old fancies, trying to find even a tiny spark to fan into a new flame that will warm the chilled heart and bring back to life everything that can send the blood rushing wildly through the body, fill the eyes with tears--everything that can delude you so well!
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inspirational
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Fyodor Dostoevsky |
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b30bf1f
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We sinned for no reason but an incomprehensible lack of love, and He saved us for no reason but an incomprehensible excess of love.
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christ
christianity
cross
excess-love
god
inspirational
jesus
jesus-shock
love
philosophy
salvation
saved
saved-souls
sin
spirituality
the-cross
theology
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Peter Kreeft |
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25cae72
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We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it's true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.
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inspirational
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Steven Pressfield |
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1f72c3a
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Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead
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heartbreak
inspirational
true-to-life
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Pete Wentz |
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97710bb
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Silent acquiescence in the face of tyranny is no better than outright agreement.
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courage
inspirational
tyranny
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C.J. Redwine |
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e087aad
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I prefer you to make mistakes in kindness than work miracles in unkindness.
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inspirational
kindness
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Mother Teresa |
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72b9bac
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I am sure it is everyone's experience, as it has been mine, that any discovery we make about ourselves or the meaning of life is never, like a scientific discovery, a coming upon something entirely new and unsuspected; it is rather, the coming to conscious recognition of something, which we really knew all the time but, because we were unwilling to formulate it correctly, we did not hitherto know we knew.
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esteem
inspirational
life-experience
self-awareness
self-esteem
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W.H. Auden |
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5f9383d
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REMEMBER YOUR GREATNES
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achieve
affirmation
attitude
beauty
big
birth
born
competition
confidence
courage
egg
existence
eye
fears
giant
great
greatness
human
inspirational
life
living-achievement
loser
losing
loss
obstacles
odds
pains
poem
poetry
race
small
sperm
strength
struggles
success
successful
suffering
survivor
suzy-kassem
victory
warrior
win
winner
winners
winning
wisdom
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Suzy Kassem |
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ebe3dc8
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If you're really listening, if you're awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your heart breaks regularly. In fact, your heart is made to break; its purpose is to burst open again and again so that it can hold evermore wonders.
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inspirational
spiritual
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Andrew Harvey |
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c02978c
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Tough times never last. Tough people do
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inspirational
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Robert Schuller |
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bc1c1dd
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Have you realized that most of your unhappiness in life is due to the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself? Take those thoughts that come to you the moment you wake up in the morning. You have not originated them but they are talking to you, they bring back the problems of yesterday, etc. Somebody is talking. Who is talking to you? Your self is talking to you. Now this man's treatment [in Psalm 42] was this: instead of allowing this self to talk to him, he starts talking to himself. "Why art thou cast down, O my soul?" he asks. His soul had been depressing him, crushing him. So he stands up and says, "Self, listen for moment, I will speak to you.
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inspirational
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Martyn Lloyd-Jones |
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fd73ad4
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We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we've been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!
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inspirational
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Jeaniene Frost |
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15f12ab
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You were born together, and together you shall be for evermore...But let there be spaces in your togetherness...Love one another, but make not a bond of love. Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. Fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. Give one another of your bread but eat not of the same loaf. Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.
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independence
inspirational
love
self-reliance
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Kahlil Gibran |
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5cf452e
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Can you say why America is the greatest country in the world
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america
country
greatest
inspirational
life
monologue
scene
the-newsroom
tv-series
world
|
Aaron Sorkin |
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3156d8a
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Have faith have faith. When you have nothing else have faith.
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faith
inspirational
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Francine Rivers |
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020314a
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It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.
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bravery
business
challenge
inspirational
motivation
strength
work
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Isaac Asimov |
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a3d20c6
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One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
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artistic
inspirational
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Vincent Van Gogh |
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eb6624f
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Kalau lawan bicaramu mendengar dengan sepenuh hati, beban pikiranmu menjadi ringan. Kalau kamu tambah ruwet, meski yang mendengarkanmu tadi seolah serius mendengar, berarti dia tidak benar-benar hadir untukmu.
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inspirational
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Dee |
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a6f1724
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Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.
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generosity
guests
hospitality
inspirational
strangers
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Anonymous |
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cf7e35a
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What an utter disgrace it would be to find something truly magic and spend any time at all pretending and trying to convince yourself it is all just an unbelievably orchestrated and beautifully choreographed illusion.
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illusion
inspirational
magic
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Tyler Knott Gregson |
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b154c90
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The same wind that uproots tree
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inspirational
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Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi |
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4277d68
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Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight.
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fight
inspirational
religion
secularism
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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37bc0b7
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Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
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inspirational
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Bruce Lee |
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d55ec83
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????? ??? ?? ???? ??? ???
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inspirational
wisdom
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???? ???? |
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5ec7c89
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Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the threads twist and turn, you will begin to understand, and you will see the pattern finally materialize in all its splendor.
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inspirational
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Colleen Houck |
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be82771
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We have all forgotten what we really are. All that we call common sense and rationality and practicality and positivism only means that for certain dead levels of our life we forget that we have forgotten. All that we call spirit and art and ecstasy only means that for one awful instant we remember that we forget.
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inspirational
reminding
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G.K. Chesterton |
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3514d12
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Se antes de cada acto nosso nos pusessemos a prever todas as consequencias dele, a pensar nelas a serio, primeiro as imediatas, depois as provaveis, depois as possiveis, depois as imaginaveis, nao chegariamos sequer a mover-nos de onde o primeiro pensamento nos tivesse feito parar.
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inspirational
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José Saramago |
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67e5353
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When it rains it pours. Maybe the art of life is to convert tough times to great experiences: we can choose to hate the rain or dance in it.
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inspirational
life
perspective
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Joan Marques |
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c4f1456
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I feel infinite.
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inspirational
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Stephen Chbosky |
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62b98b9
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It's better to have a few faithful friends than numerous shallow friendships.
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friendship
inspirational
life
love
relationships
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Jonathan Anthony Burkett |
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9201a92
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Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.
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blessings
inspirational
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Jennifer Hudson Taylor |
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acbd73b
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The nourishment of body is food, while the nourishment of the soul is feeding others.
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inspirational
nourishment-of-soul
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Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S |
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f412f22
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No other success can compensate for failure in the home.
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home
inspirational
spiritual
success
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J. E. McCulloch |
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c59f917
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Books didn't make me wallow in darkness, darkness made me wallow in books.
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books
inspirational
reading
teens
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Jackson Pearce |
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6dc1c33
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?In life, at sometime or another we come to a point where all relationships cease--where there is only us and Allah. There are no parents, brother or sister, or any friend. Then we realise that there is no earth under us nor is there sky above, but only Allah who is supporting us in this emptiness. Then we realise our worth - it is not more than a grain of sand or the leaf of a plant. Then we realise our existence is only confined to our being. Our demise makes not a whit of difference to the world around us, nor to the scheme of things.
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inspirational
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Umera Ahmed |
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40968af
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Child, you have to learn to see things in the right proportions. Learn to see great things great and small things small.
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inspirational
perspective
proportion
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Corrie Ten Boom |
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13241c8
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When was the last time you woke up and realized that today could be the best day of your life?
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best-day
inspirational
life
motivational
today
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Steve Maraboli |
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872361e
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I've always thought the best relationships are those that are as happy and content in silence as they are in action [...]
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inspirational
life
love
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Stephanie Perkins |
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49e0a56
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Friendship isn't a science mudboy. Just do what you think is right.
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eoin-colfer
friendship
holly-short
inspirational
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Eoin Colfer |
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00b679d
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If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear.
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inspirational
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Joanna R. Macy |
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fb27303
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When you expect nothing from the world - not the light of the sun, the wet of water, nor the air to breathe - everything is a wonder and every moment a gift.
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inspirational
life
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Michael J. Sullivan |
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1292db2
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Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.
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francis
inspirational
saints
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Francis Of Assisi |
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250fbfc
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Blind, broke, jobless, and frustrated, Kevin found it difficult to get through the following few months. But he had one big thing going for him
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hope
hope-quotes
inspirational
inspirational-quotes
life
sober
sobriety
sobriety-courage
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Traci Medford-Rosow |
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cf461a1
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She was broken from moment to moment, watching her world collide she felt lost inside herself. She fell apart for a passion that flamed beneath her. She waited and died a hundred times, it dripped from her pores. The moment she let go, she soared over the stillness like the star she was born to be.
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happyquotes
hope
inspirational
inspirationalquotes
inspired
instadaily
instaquote
lovequotes
pinquotes
poems
poetry
quote
quoteoftheday
quotes
relationships
rmdrake
sadquotes
sayings
spokenword
tattoo
typewriter
vsco
writer
writing
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robert m drake |
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1313359
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Blindness separates people from things
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inspirational
women-s-rights
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Helen Keller |
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aab3266
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... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.
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death
inspirational
truth
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Lisa Genova |
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f65625e
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How can we be so arrogant? The planet is, was, and always will be stronger than us. We can't destroy it; if we overstep the mark, the planet will simply erase us from its surface and carry on existing. Why don't they start talking about not letting the planet destroy us?
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environment
inspirational
planet
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Paulo Coelho |
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fa6dba1
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Bebek berjalan berbondong-bondong, akan tetapi burung elang terbang sendirian.
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emo-ish
inspirational
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Soekarno |
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be65cca
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Don't count your owls before they are delivered.
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dumbledore
humor
inspirational
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J.K. Rowling |
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d861934
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If gold rusts, what then can iron do?
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fallibility
flaws
gold
imperfection
inspirational
iron
rust
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Geoffrey Chaucer |
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f37e251
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It eluded us then, but that's no matter--tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . . And then one fine morning-- So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
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final-words
inspirational
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F. Scott Fitzgerald |
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b9ce833
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Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
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achievement
change
comfort-zone
courage
dream
dreams
inspiration
inspirational
inspirational-quotes
inspire
inspiring
leader
leaders
leadership
life
life-quotes
living
motivation
motivational
start-up
step-out-of-your-comfort-zone
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Roy T. Bennett |
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eaf6eaf
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If you're waiting until you feel talented enough to make it, you'll never make it.
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action
actor
ambition
athlete
bravery
business
career
concern
confidence
contentment
courage
determination
doubt
dreams
emotions
encouraging
faith
fear
feelings
follow-your-dreams
gift
good-enough
insecurity
inspirational
just-do-it
just-do-something
motivational
musician
passion
perseverance
persistence
pursue-your-dreams
risk
security
skill
success
take-action
talent
worry
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Criss Jami |
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2981b84
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when you're cool for twenty
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inspirational
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Miguel Pinero |
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1474ef9
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Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
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inspirational
motivational
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Marilyn vos Savant |
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f55ea9d
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There's no way around grief and loss: you can dodge all you want, but sooner or later you just have to go into it, through it, and, hopefully, come out the other side. The world you find there will never be the same as the world you left.
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inspirational
johnny-cash
loss
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Johnny Cash |
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af8f398
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We will never be happy until we make God the source of our fulfillment and the answer to our longings. He is the only one who should have power over our souls.
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happiness
inspirational
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Stormie Omartian |
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3754429
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Hope springs forever.
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encouraging
hopeful
inspirational
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J.K. Rowling |
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dff8feb
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Temptation is the feeling we get when encountered by an opportunity to do what we innately know we shouldn't.
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choice
inspirational
life
opportunity-temptation
temptation
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Steve Maraboli |
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32dffd8
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It was never about the world being too big, it was more like she was too much for the world to handle.
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happyquotes
hope
inspirational
inspirationalquotes
inspired
instadaily
instaquote
lovequotes
pinquotes
poems
poetry
quote
quoteoftheday
quotes
relationships
rmdrake
sadquotes
sayings
spokenword
tattoo
typewriter
vsco
writer
writing
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robert m drake |
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39290a0
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If you want something you've never ha
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inspirational
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Thomas Jefferson |
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3395026
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In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.
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inspirational
poetry
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Mother Teresa |
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97694da
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And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on.
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inspirational
sam-gamgee
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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e22aa76
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Too many locks, not enough keys.
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inspirational
life-quotes
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Sarah Dessen |
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140ba4b
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I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
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inspirational
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Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni |
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22c5b6f
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There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.
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goals
inspirational
plans
success
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Will Smith |
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c890643
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Accidents happen. Our bones shatter, our skin splits, our hearts break. We burn, we drown, we stay alive.
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accidents
fantasy
heartbreak
hurt
inspiration
inspirational
life
life-goes-on
love
moïra-fowley-doyle
staying-alive
the-accident-season
truth
unique
young-adult
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Moïra Fowley-Doyle |
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0c25c8b
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In the mist of Difficulty lies Opportunity.
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inspirational
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Oprah Winfrey |
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1c3659b
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On Wednesday, when the sky is blue
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humor
inspirational
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A.A. Milne |
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1881d3b
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What is she to you anyway?
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inspirational
leigh-bardugo
love
shadow-and-bone
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Leigh Bardugo |
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35c8eb6
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take what you can from your dream
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inspirational
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Dave Matthews Band |
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778e398
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Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
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defeat
failure
inspirational
trying
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George E. Woodberry |
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65ed32b
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I belive I can fly, I believe I can touch the sky.
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dreams
inspirational
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R. Kelly |
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4942e89
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When I was One
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humor
inspirational
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A.A. Milne |
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d63d8dd
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The pressures on gay teens can be overwhelming--to keep secrets, tell lies, deny who you are, and try to be who you're not. Remember: you are special and worth being cared about, loved, and accepted just as you are. Never, ever let anyone convince you otherwise.
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be-yourself
gay-rights
inspirational
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Alex Sanchez |
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817ff85
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Happiness has to do with your mindset, not with outside circumstance.
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action
agreement-with-reality
circumstances
happiness
inspirational
life
mindset
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Steve Maraboli |
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a6922d3
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She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.
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eyes
inspirational
looking
personality
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Ernest Hemingway |
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a6c0ee5
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Hidup hanya ada erti pada yang bahagia.
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inspirational
life
truth
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Hlovate |
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The institutions of human society treat us as parts of a machine. They assign us ranks and place considerable pressure upon us to fulfill defined roles. We need something to help us restore our lost and distorted humanity. Each of us has feelings that have been suppressed and have built up inside. There is a voiceless cry resting in the depths of our souls, waiting for expression. Art gives the soul's feelings voice and form.
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buddhism
destiny
happiness
humanism
inspirational
karma
peace
self-reformation
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Daisaku Ikeda |
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87bcb75
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Be humble for you are made of earth. Be noble for you are made of stars.
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inspirational
science
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Serbian Proverb |
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871bce2
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And the only way to do great work is to love what you do.... Don't settle
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inspirational
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Steve Jobs |
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0c5ac39
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Stories are like genies...They can carry us into and though our sorrows. Sometimes they burn, sometimes they dance, sometimes they weep, sometimes they sing. Like genies, everyone has one. Like genies, sometimes we forget that we do
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inspirational
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Francesca Lia Block |
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7dd29fd
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When she listened to songs that she loved on the radio, something stirred inside her. A liquid ache spread under her skin, and she walked out of the world like a witch.
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beautiful
inspirational
music
witch
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Arundhati Roy |
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9af14e5
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I've been doing this a long time, and I've come to learn that predictions don't mean much. Too much lies outside the realm of medical knowledge. A lot of what happens next comes down to you and your specific genetics, your attitude. No, there's nothing we can do to stop the inevitable, but that's not the point. The point is that you should try to make the most of the time you have left.
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death
inspirational
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Nicholas Sparks |
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30794bb
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Have you noticed how nobody ever looks up? Nobody looks at chimneys, or trees against the sky, or the tops of buildings. Everybody just looks down at the pavement or their shoes. The whole world could pass them by and most people wouldn't notice.
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happiness
inspirational
observation
optimism
umbrellas
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Julie Andrews Edwards |
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e6e667e
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The media only writes about the sinners and the scandals, he said, but that's normal, because 'a tree that falls makes more noise than a forest that grows.
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inspirational
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Pope Francis |
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61cb8db
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Never let yourself be persuaded that any one Great Man, any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America. When America consists of one leader and 158 million followers, it will no longer be America.
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inspirational
warning
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Dwight D. Eisenhower |
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81325b9
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Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?
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eragon
inheritance
inheritance-cycle
inspirational
life
spiritual
young-adult
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Christopher Paolini |
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dd3b490
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The night before brain surgery, I thought about death. I searched out my larger values, and I asked myself, if I was going to die, did I want to do it fighting and clawing or in peaceful surrender? What sort of character did I hope to show? Was I content with myself and what I had done with my life so far? I decided that I was essentially a good person, although I could have been better--but at the same time I understood that the cancer didn't care
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atheism
belief
bravery
cancer
death
doctors
honor
inevitable
inspirational
knowledge
medicine
morality
mortality
science
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Lance Armstrong |
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806f656
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It's disconcerting to realize how little you have to say to someone who once occupied such a prominent place in your bed.
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breakups
inspirational
inspirational-love
men-and-women
realization
relationships
sex
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Sue Grafton |
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a0964ab
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Light is more important than the lantern
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inspirational
lantern
light
poem
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Nizar Qabbani |
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d81ec55
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God.
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heavens
inspirational
nature
spiritual
wisdom
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Anne Frank |
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b1c8255
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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inspirational
political-parties
politics
religion
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Abraham Lincoln |
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91ff32a
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I thought how lovely and how strange a river is. A river is a river, always there, and yet the water flowing through it is never the same water and is never still. It's always changing and is always on the move. And over time the river itself changes too. It widens and deepens as it rubs and scours, gnaws and kneads, eats and bores its way through the land. Even the greatest rivers- the Nile and the Ganges, the Yangtze and he Mississippi, the Amazon and the great grey-green greasy Limpopo all set about with fever trees-must have been no more than trickles and flickering streams before they grew into mighty rivers
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growth
inspirational
river
self
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Aidan Chambers |
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93adffd
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Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.
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inspirational
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Mitch Albom |
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4515960
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When purpose is not known, abuse is inevitable
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inspirational
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Myles Munroe |
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a03c112
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Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.
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inspirational
life
past
questioning
regret
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Colleen Hoover |
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baad756
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If you are her man, she will talk to you until there jus
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inspirational
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Steve Harvey |
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59aa995
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There is no rest for the person who has envy, and there is no love for the person who has bad manners.
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inspirational
manners
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Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S |
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7994c48
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Maybe I hope too much. Maybe I dream too much or maybe I love too much to just give up on you.
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happyquotes
hope
inspirational
inspirationalquotes
inspired
instadaily
instaquote
lovequotes
pinquotes
poems
poetry
quote
quoteoftheday
quotes
relationships
rmdrake
sadquotes
sayings
spokenword
tattoo
typewriter
vsco
writer
writing
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robert m drake |
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19bea1e
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Don't let the tall weeds cast a shadow on the beautiful flowers in your garden.
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flowers
friends
garden
inspirational
motivational
weeds
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Steve Maraboli |
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2bb6063
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You're not a human being until you value something more than the life of your body. And the greater the thing you live and die for the greater you are.
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inspirational
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Orson Scott Card |
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3eee698
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"Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore.
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friendship
inspirational
npr
the-scorpion-and-the-tortoise
this-american-life
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David Rakoff |
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5c69d13
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I define vulnerability as uncertainty, risk and emotional exposure. With that definition in mind, let's think about love. Waking up every day and loving someone who may or may not love us back, whose safety we can't ensure, who may stay in our lives or may leave without a moment's notice, who may be loyal to the day they die or betray us tomorrow--that's vulnerability.
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inspirational
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Brené Brown |
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240d87b
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Love is not a relationship, love is a state of being; it has nothing to do with anybody else. One is not "in love", one is love. And of course when one is love, one is in love - but that is an outcome, a by-product, that is not the source. The source is that one is love.
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inspirational
life
love
philosophy
wisdom
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Osho |
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56f2ec8
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Don't tell thin women to eat a cheeseburger. Don't tell fat women to put down the fork. Don't tell underweight men to bulk up. Don't tell women with facial hair to wax, don't tell uncircumcised men they're gross, don't tell muscular women to go easy on the dead-lift, don't tell dark-skinned women to bleach their vagina, don't tell black women to relax their hair, don't tell flat-chested women to get breast implants, don't tell "apple-shaped" women what's "flattering," don't tell mothers to hide their stretch marks, and don't tell people whose toes you don't approve of not to wear flip-flops. And so on, etc, etc, in every iteration until the mountains crumble to the sea. Basically, just go ahead and CEASE telling other human beings what they "should" and "shouldn't" do with their bodies unless a) you are their doctor, or b) SOMEBODY GODDAMN ASKED YOU.
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inspirational
life
people
society
women
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Lindy West |
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8620658
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just because you fail once, it doesn't mean you're going to fail at everything. keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself because if you don't, then who will? so keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
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inspirational
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Marilyn Monroe |
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15cd497
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The important thing is not the object of love, but the emotion itself.
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emotion
inspirational
love
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Gore Vidal |
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74f1f77
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Only children believe they're capable of everything.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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6617c5e
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Music, my rampart and my only one.
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freedom
inspirational
music
rampart
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Edna St. Vincent Millay |
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f16dac0
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There is only one who is all powerful, and his greatest weapon is love.
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comics
inspirational
love
marvel
marvel-comics
stan-lee
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Stan Lee |
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d223763
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Under Adverse conditions - some people break down,some break records
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inspirational
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Shiv Khera |
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d690955
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It is therefore of supreme importance that we consent to live not for ourselves but for others. When we do this we will be able first of all to face and accept our own limitations. As long as we secretly adore ourselves, our own deficiencies will remain to torture us with an apparent defilement. But if we live for others, we will gradually discover that no expects us to be 'as gods'. We will see that we are human, like everyone else, that we all have weaknesses and deficiencies, and that these limitations of ours play a most important part in all our lives. It is because of them that we need others and others need us. We are not all weak in the same spots, and so we supplement and complete one another, each one making up in himself for the lack in another.
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acceptance
compassion
inspirational
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Thomas Merton |
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7bc75d4
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Exuberance is beauty.
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inspirational
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William Blake |
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a93538d
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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arrogance
inspirational
philosphy
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Friedrich Nietzsche |
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898556f
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If you have not done things worthy of being written about, at least write things worthy of being read.
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inspirational
writing
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Giacomo Casanova |
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03c021e
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To put meaning in one's life may end in madness
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inspirational
life
meaning
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Edgar Lee Masters |
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04cfe70
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because he's Will
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inspirational
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Philip Pullman |
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2787839
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I'm not afraid of dying. I'm afraid I'll never get a chance to live!
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crime
diamond-eyes
fantasy
humour
inspirational
science-fiction
thriller
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A.A. Bell |
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408de39
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Hope like that, as I thought before, doesn't make you a weak person. It's hopelessness that makes you weak. Hope makes you stronger, because it brings with it a sense of reason. Not a reason for how or why they were taken from you, but a reason for you to live. Because it's a maybe. A 'maybe someday things won't always be this shit.' And that 'maybe' immediately makes the shittiness better.
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hope-life
inspirational
life
love
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Cecelia Ahern |
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be20a3c
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Your mother won a special reward," she told me, "because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded.
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drama
fiction
inspirational
romance
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Sarah Dessen |