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at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.
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strength
life
inspirational
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Cecelia Ahern |
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People talk about confidence without ever bringing up hard work. That's a mistake. I know I sound like some dour older spinster on Downton Abbey who has never felt a man's touch and whose heart has turned to stone, but I don't understand how you could have self-confidence if you don't do the work... I have never, ever, ever, met a high confident person and successful person who is not what a movie would call a 'workaholic.' Because confidence is like respect; you have to earn it.
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success
inspirational
hard-work
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Mindy Kaling |
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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books
inspirational
read
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Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. |
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Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
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social-justice
volunteers
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspiring
inspirational
community-service
volunteer
volunteering
volunteerism
community
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H. Jackson Brown Jr. |
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The personal life deeply lived always expands into truths beyond itself.
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inspirational
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Anaïs Nin |
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Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live.
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inspirational
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Jacqueline Winspear |
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Each of us is an innkeeper who decides if there is room for Jesus!
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innkeeper
jesus
inspirational
maxwell
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Neal A. Maxwell |
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When the wind blows,the grass bends.
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inspirational
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Confucius |
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The universe was here before you, and it will go on after you. The only way it will remember you is if you do something worthy of remembrance.
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aidan
illuminae
inspirational
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Amie Kaufman |
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Tragedy and adversary are the stones we sharpen our swords against so we can fight new battles.
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akri
inspirational
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Sherrilyn Kenyon |
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The heart of wisdom is tolerance.
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inspirational
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Steven Erikson |
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I don't care," I said, leaning my head back against the seat. "Can we just get lost and see where that lands us?
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inspirational
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Alexandra Bracken |
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The greatest revenge is massive success.
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les-brown
motivational
inspirational
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Les Brown |
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The boy and his heart had become friends, and neither was capable now of betraying the other.
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inspirational
the-alchemist
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Paulo Coelho |
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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musician
world
poetry
humanity
music
songs
life
truth
inspirational
lyrics
songwriting
art
connection
song-lyrics
artist
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Criss Jami |
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Every single desire can lead to dream and every single dream has possibility to become reality.
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dream
life
inspirational
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Santosh Kalwar |
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There is nothing frightening in the dark if you just face it.
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inspirational
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L.J. Smith |
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I've learned one thing: you can only really get to know a person after a row. Only then can you judge their true character!
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humour
inspirational
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Anne Frank |
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As Kevin climbed the three flights of stairs to his apartment, his brain formulated a vague plan of action. He could not have explained it to anyone or even to himself in coherent sentences. But the outline was there in Kevin's subconscious. It would not only change his life, but many others, as well
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call-to-action
inspiration
inspirational-attitude
hope
life
inspirational
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Traci Medford-Rosow |
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Human kind is made up of two sexes, women and men. Is it possible that a mass is improved by the improvement of only one part and the other part is ignored? Is it possible that if half of a mass is tied to earth with chains and the other half can soar into skies?
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women
inspirational
rights
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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There is beauty everywhere; even in the dark, there is light, and that is the rarest kind of all.
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beauty
inspirational
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Catherine Doyle |
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Vulnerability is not weakness, and the uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure we face every day are not optional. Our only choice is a question of engagement. Our willingness to own and engage with our vulnerability determines the depth of our courage and the clarity of our purpose; the level to which we protect ourselves from being vulnerable is a measure of our fear and disconnection.
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inspirational
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Brené Brown |
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Rich People plan for three generation
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class-distinction
inspirational
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Gloria Steinem |
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Sober, gainfully employed, and physically secure once again, Kevin began to relax. His confidence slowly returned. For the first time since the onset of his blindness, he let his guard down and a crack in his carefully constructed veneer formed
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sober-reflection
sobriety-courage
light
inspirational-quotes
life-quotes
hope
life
inspirational
sober
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Traci Medford-Rosow |
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I challenge every one of you who can hear me to rise to the divinity within you. Do we really realize what it means to be a child of God, to have within us something of the divine nature?
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spirit
inspirational
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Gordon B. Hinckley |
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You must learn to take a step back and visualize the whole piece. If you focus only on the thread given to you, you lose sight of what it can become.
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inspirational
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Colleen Houck |
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Life is All About How you Handle Plan
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humor
inspirational
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Suzy Toronto |
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The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!
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inspirational
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
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humanism
philosophy
inspirational
peace
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Bertrand Russell |
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She smiled. She knew she was dying. But it did not matter any longer. She had known something which no human words could ever tell and she knew it now. She had been awaiting it and she felt it, as if it had been, as if she had lived it. Life had been, if only because she had known it could be, and she felt it now as a hymn without sound, deep under the little whole that dripped red drops into the snow, deeper than that from which the red drops came. A moment or an eternity- did it matter? Life, undefeated, existed and could exist. She smiled, her last smile, to so much that had been possible.
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life
philosophy
inspirational
individualism
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Ayn Rand |
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And what, incidentally, do you think integrity is? The ability not to pick a watch out of your neighbor's pocket? No, it's not as easy as that. If that were all, I'd say ninety-five percent of humanity were honest, upright men. Only, as you can see, they aren't. Integrity is the ability to stand by an idea.
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inspirational
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Ayn Rand |
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I was my own woman
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inspirational
women-s-strength
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Sylvia Plath |
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I change the world, the world changes me.
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world
change
inspirational
gemma-doyle
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Libba Bray |
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I want you to go back into the barrack and tell the men to come out after the storm. Tell them to look up at me tied here. Tell them I'll open my eyes and look back at them, and they'll know that I survived.
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inspirational
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Brandon Sanderson |
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To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
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inspirational
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Mustafa Kemal Atatürk |
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There are souls in this world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere, and leaving it behind them when they go.
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joy
inspirational
gift
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Frederick William Faber |
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And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.
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dreams
inspirational
sweet
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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?The day you become old is the day you're not looking for new experiences anymore.
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green-day
musician
inspirational
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Billie Joe Armstrong |
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Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.
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religion
inspirational
beliefs
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Flannery O'Connor |
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"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die as you say. Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it-our life-hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly.
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death
life
inspirational
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Marcel Proust |
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It was the living who ignored the strange and wonderful, because life was too full of the boring and mundane.
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humorous
life
inspirational
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Terry Pratchett |
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Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.
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eli-stock
inspirational
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Sarah Dessen |
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If we were to one day encounter a form of life more powerful and intelligent than our own, and it regarded us as we regard fish, what would be our argument against being eaten?
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life
inspirational
thought-provoking
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Jonathan Safran Foer |
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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inspirational
capability
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Mahatma Gandhi |
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The further I wake into this life, the more I realize that God is everywhere and the extraordinary is waiting quietly beneath the skin of all that is ordinary. Light is in both the broken bottle and the diamond, and music is in both the flowing violin and the water dripping from the drainage pipe. Yes, God is under the porch as well as on top of the mountain, and joy is in both the front row and the bleachers, if we are willing to be where we are.
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life
inspirational
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Mark Nepo |
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The most important thing is this: to be able at any moment to be free to choose a life that makes you happy.
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happy
live-life-happy
choice
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
optimistic
positive-affirmation
positive-life
inspiring
positive
positive-thinking
optimism
happiness
life
inspirational
choose
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Roy T. Bennett |
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Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.
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inspirational
helping-others
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Andre Agassi |
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People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need and want.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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I have a dream." "Is your dream very big?" "No." "Well is it very grand?" "Not either." "Neither?" "Neither." "What is it then?" "It is very shiny.
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inspirational-attitude
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
dreams
inspiring
inspirational
heartwarming
dreaming
sweet
dreams-inspirational
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C. JoyBell C. |
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He had an idea that even when beaten he could steal a little victory by laughing at defeat.
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laughter
inspirational
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John Steinbeck |
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Cake is happiness! If you know the way of the cake, you know the way of happiness! If you have a cake in front of you, you should not look any further for joy!
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joy
looking-no-further
the-way-of-the-cake
the-way-to-happiness
understanding-happiness
understanding-joy
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
life-and-living
living
happiness
life
inspirational
cake
cakes
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C. JoyBell C. |
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The moral of the story is even though that seemed like the end of the world back then, right now I can look back on it and laugh. And if anyone is going through something similar right now just know it will get better.
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life-gets-better
looking-ahead
past-experiences
sadness
life-lessons
love
inspirational
life-advice
dating-advice
experience
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Phil Lester |
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Our great human adventure is the evolution of consciousness. We are in this life to enlarge the soul, liberate the spirit, and light up the brain.
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inspirational
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Tom Robbins |
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Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting.
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inspirational
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Ernest Hemingway |
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Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.
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inspirational
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Brené Brown |
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See? See what you can do? Never mind you can't tell one letter from another, never mind you born a slave, never mind you lose your name, never mind your daddy dead, never mind nothing. Here, this here, is what a man can do if he puts his mind to it and his back in it. Stop sniveling,' [the land] said. 'Stop picking around the edges of the world. Take advantage, and if you can't take advantage, take disadvantage. We live here. On this planet, in this nation, in this county right here. Nowhere else! We got a home in this rock, don't you see! Nobody starving in my home; nobody crying in my home, and if I got a home you got one too! Grab it. Grab this land! Take it, hold it, my brothers, make it, my brothers, shake it, squeeze it, turn it, twist it, beat it, kick it, kiss it, whip it, stomp it, dig it, plow it, seed it, reap it, rent it, buy it, sell it, own it, build it, multiply it, and pass it on - can you hear me? Pass it on!
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inspirational
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Toni Morrison |
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There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits.
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royal-road
science
inspirational
summit
fatigue
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Karl Marx |
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You kick ass Sam. And don't forget it
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inspirational
butts
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Pittacus Lore |
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Sometimes a flame must level a forest to ash before new growth can begin.
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inspirational
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A.G. Howard |
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There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow.
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love
inspirational
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Ernest Hemingway |
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spiritual
inspirational
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Inspiration comes of working every day.
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writing
inspirational
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Charles Baudelaire |
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Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
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writing
inspirational
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Anne Lamott |
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The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages.
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inspirational
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Richard Bach |
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Of all the idiots I have met in my life, and the Lord knows they have not been few or little, I think that I have been the biggest.
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humor
inspirational
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Isak Dinesen |
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I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
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inspirational
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Anna Freud |
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I would rather have 30 minutes of "wonderful" than a lifetime of nothing special.
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wonder
inspirational
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Julia Roberts |
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The difference between me and other people is that they all walk around with onion skins wrapped around them. Pre-meditations, pretentions, the faces that they present to the world, the faces that they present to themselves.. onion skins that come in layer after layer. They're on the inside of all that. And I... I am the inside of the onion skin walking around. I am only me.
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onion-skins
persona
people
inspirational-life
inspirational-quotes
living
life
inspirational
the-world
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C. JoyBell C. |
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...there will be sleeping enough in the grave....
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inspirational
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Benjamin Franklin |
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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
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inspirational
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Robert Bresson |
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For your past, for your flaws, and ultimately for your stress; I judge no one whom I've met along the way because in a sense we were all wounded in our own ways.
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motivational
spiritual
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
zen
peace
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Forrest Curran |
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"Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Party-spokesman might have labeled departure from the misery of the Fuhrer's or any other Reich and even criticism of it as treachery .... Not only do they confound the escape of the prisoner with the flight of the deserter; but they would seem to prefer the acquiescence of the "quisling" to the resistance of the patriot."
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fantasy
inspirational
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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"Bean finds the best apple in our tree and hands it up to me. "You know what this tastes like when you first bite into it?" she asks. "No, what?" "Blue sky." "You're zoomed." "You ever eat blue sky?" "No," I admit. "Try it sometime," she says. "It's apple-flavored."
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humor
life
inspirational
obvious
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Rodman Philbrick |
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence
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inspirational
excellence
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Vince Lombardi |
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Love does not traffic in a marketplace, nor use a huckster's scales. Its joy, like the joy of the intellect, is to feel itself alive. The aim of Love is to love: no more, and no less. You were my enemy: such an enemy as no man ever had. I had given you all my life, and to gratify the lowest and most contemptible of all human passions, hatred and vanity and greed, you had thrown it away. In less than three years you had entirely ruined me in every point of view. For my own sake there was nothing for me to do but to love you.
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life
love
inspirational
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Oscar Wilde |
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You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else
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life
inspirational
choices
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Marie Sexton |
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Never say 'I can't.' 'I can't' is a limit, and life is about breaking through limits. Say 'I will' instead.
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life
inspirational
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Heather Vogel Frederick |
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Secangkir kopi yang dengan tenang menunggu kau minum itu tidak pernah mengusut kenapa kau bisa membedakan aromanya dari asap yang setiap hari kau hirup ketika berangkat dan pulang kerja di kota yang semakin tidak bisa mengerti kenapa mesti ada secangkir kopi yang tersedia di atas meja setiap pagi
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inspirational
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Sapardi Djoko Damono |
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Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory.
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les-brown
motivational
inspirational
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Les Brown |
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No lake so still but it has its wave
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life
philosophy
inspirational
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Confucius |
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Your daddy is standing in a swimming pool out a little bit from the edge. You are, let's say, three years old and standing on the edge of the pool. Daddy holds out his arms to you and says, "Jump, I'll catch you. I promise." Now, how do you make your daddy look good at that moment? Answer: trust him and jump. Have faith in him and jump. That makes him look strong and wise and loving. But if you won't jump, if you shake your head and run away from the edge, you make your daddy look bad. It looks like you are saying, "he can't catch me" or "he won't catch me" or "it's not a good idea to do what he tells me to do." And all three of those make your dad look bad
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inspirational
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John Piper |
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L'homme est libre au moment qu'il veut l'etre.
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philosophy
inspirational
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Voltaire |
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I feel like I've swallowed a cloudy sky
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creative
feelings
inspirational
sputnik-sweetheart
haruki-murakami
murakami
feeling
sky
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Haruki Murakami |
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You must be humble, as it is one of the greatest [forms of] worship.
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inspirational
humbleness
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S |
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It's a rare gift, to know where you need to be, before you've been to all the places you don't need to be.
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magic
fantasy
inspirational
earthsea
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.
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action
letting-go
change
motivational
life
inspirational
spiritual-growth
simplicity
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Steve Maraboli |
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Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries.
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men
future
inspirational
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Eoin Colfer |
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A writer flirts with schizophrenia, nurtures synesthesia, and embraces obsessive-compulsive disorder. Your art feeds on you, your soul, and, yes, to a degree, your sanity. Writing novels worth reading will bugger up your mind, jeopardize your relationships, and distend your life. You have been warned.
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irony
writer
inspirational
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David Mitchell |
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Most parents try really hard to give their kids the best possible life. They give them the best food and clothes they can afford, take their own kind of take on training kids to be honest and polite. But what they don't realize is no matter how much they try, their kids will get out there. Out to this complicated little world. If they are lucky they will survive, through backstabbers, broken hearts, failures and all the kinds of invisible insane pressures out there. But most kids get lost in them. They will get caught up in all kinds of bubbles. Trouble bubbles. Bubbles that continuously tell them that they are not good enough. Bubbles that get them carried away with what they think is love, give them broken hearts. Bubbles that will blur the rest of the world to them, make them feel like that is it, that they've reached the end. Sometimes, even the really smart kids, make stupid decisions. They lose control. Parents need to realize that the world is getting complicated every second of every day. With new problems, new diseases, new habits. They have to realize the vast probability of their kids being victims of this age, this complicated era. Your kids could be exposed to problems that no kind of therapy can help. Your kids could be brainwashed by themselves to believe in insane theories that drive them crazy. Most kids will go through this stage. The lucky ones will understand. They will grow out of them. The unlucky ones will live in these problems. Grow in them and never move forward. They will cut themselves, overdose on drugs, take up excessive drinking and smoking, for the slightest problems in their lives
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broken-hearts
cutting-your-self
depression
emo
emotion
hopeless-romantic
lfe-essons
phases
romance
sorrow
joy
happiness
life
love
inspirational
childhood-trauma
teenage-love
infatuation
growing-up
helplessness
crying
parents
bullying
teenagers
trapped
childhood
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Thisuri Wanniarachchi |
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Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy.
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inspirational
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Demi Lovato |
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We may run, walk, stumble. drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.
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life
inspirational
purpose
journey
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Gloria Gaither |
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The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
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inspirational
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J.P. Morgan |
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Sometimes, there is no harm in putting off a piece of work until another day.
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inspirational
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
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writing
inspirational
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Walter Mosley |
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To oppose something is to maintain it... You must go somewhere else; you must have another goal; then you walk a different road.
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political
inspirational
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Ursula K. Le Guin |
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The home we seek is in eternity
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inspirational
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Farid Attar |
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If I were given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself.
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life-lessons
inspirational
gift
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Charles M. Schulz |
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You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
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life
inspirational
attitude
potential
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Myles Munroe |
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Not to have a thing is less humiliating than to beg it.
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inspirational
humiliation
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S |
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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religion
god
inspirational
last-words
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Plotinus |
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You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive. Preserve your tongue as you do your gold and money. One word could bring disgrace and the termination of a bliss.
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think-before-you-speak
inspirational
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Ali Ibn Abi Talib A.S |
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We're constantly being told what other people think we are, and that's why it is so important to know yourself.
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inspirational
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Sarah McLachlan |
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The best form of saying is being
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leadership
inspirational
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Che Guevarra |
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We become what we want to be by consistently being what we want to become each day.
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self-determination
religious
inspirational
self-improvement
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Richard G. Scott |
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There are moments in every relationship that define when two people start to fall in love
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slam-poetry
poetry
love
inspirational
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Colleen Hoover |
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Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads. Now, your Honor, you have been a boy; I have been a boy. And we have known other boys. The best way to understand somebody else is to put yourself in his place. Is it within the realm of your imagination that a boy who was right, with all the prospects of life before him, who could choose what he wanted, without the slightest reason in the world would lure a young companion to his death, and take his place in the shadow of the gallows? ...No one who has the process of reasoning could doubt that a boy who would do that is not right. How insane they are I care not, whether medically or legally. They did not reason; they could not reason; they committed the most foolish, most unprovoked, most purposeless, most causeless act that any two boys ever committed, and they put themselves where the rope is dangling above their heads.... Why did they kill little Bobby Franks? Not for money, not for spite; not for hate. They killed him as they might kill a spider or a fly, for the experience. They killed him because they were made that way. Because somewhere in the infinite processes that go to the making up of the boy or the man something slipped, and those unfortunate lads sit here hated, despised, outcasts, with the community shouting for their blood. . . . I know, Your Honor, that every atom of life in all this universe is bound up together. I know that a pebble cannot be thrown into the ocean without disturbing every drop of water in the sea. I know that every life is inextricably mixed and woven with every other life. I know that every influence, conscious and unconscious, acts and reacts on every living organism, and that no one can fix the blame. I know that all life is a series of infinite chances, which sometimes result one way and sometimes another. I have not the infinite wisdom that can fathom it, neither has any other human brain
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empathy
free-will
morality
compassion
choice
science
wisdom
inspirational
reductionism
determinism
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Clarence Darrow |
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You make mistakes, mistakes don't make you
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motivation
motivational
success
life
inspirational
mistakes
failure
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Maxwell Maltz |
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Were these boys in their right minds? Here were two boys with good intellect, one eighteen and one nineteen. They had all the prospects that life could hold out for any of the young; one a graduate of Chicago and another of Ann Arbor; one who had passed his examination for the Harvard Law School and was about to take a trip in Europe,--another who had passed at Ann Arbor, the youngest in his class, with three thousand dollars in the bank. Boys who never knew what it was to want a dollar; boys who could reach any position that was to boys of that kind to reach; boys of distinguished and honorable families, families of wealth and position, with all the world before them. And they gave it all up for nothing, for nothing! They took a little companion of one of them, on a crowded street, and killed him, for nothing, and sacrificed everything that could be of value in human life upon the crazy scheme of a couple of immature lads
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empathy
free-will
morality
compassion
choice
science
wisdom
inspirational
reductionism
biology
determinism
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Clarence Darrow |
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We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience.
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spirituality
inspirational
buddhism
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Pema Chödrön |
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My father chose my name , and my last name was chosen by my ancestors . That's enough, I myself choose my way
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faith
funny
relationship
death
religion
god
humor
life
love
truth
inspirational
friend
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Ali Shariati |
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A great tree develops over time and can tell stories not only those of happiness, but also those that contain pain from what it has seen over the years, and as a result is the wise ancient tree that it is today. As the seasons change, the tree naturally goes through changes as well: where the leaves turn yellow and orange in the fall, falling by the Winter, returning in the Spring, and with full set of new leafs by the Summer. Love is no different in that there will be times when we are fully naked in the Winter, and left to wonder about Spring when it seemed so easy to love, yet the wise tree knows that no winter will last forever no matter how cold it may be.
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motivational
spiritual
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
zen
peace
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Forrest Curran |
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Happiness is not having what you want, it is wanting what you have.
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inspirational
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Sheryl Crow |
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What you do matters -- but not much. What yo
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faith
inspirational
works
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Catherine Doherty |
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Better not to give in to it. It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.
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inspirational
hungergames
mockingjay
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Finnick Odair Mockingjay |
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"I don't ever remember being afraid of "oldness". There are things I miss about being younger - chiefly the ability to pull all-nighters and keep working and working well; and being smiled at by girls I didn't know who thought I was cute; and I wish I had the eyesight I had even five years ago... but that stuff feels pretty trivial. I'm happier than I've been at any time in my life these days. I have a wonderful wife whom I adore, watched three amazing kids grow into two delightful adults and my favourite teenager, an astonishing number of grand life experiences, I've made art I'm proud of, I have real, true, glorious friends, and I've been able to do real good for things I care about, like freedom of speech, like libraries. Sometimes I'll do something like An Evening With Neil and Amanda, or the 8 in 8 project, and completely surprise myself. I miss friends who have died, but then, I'm glad that time gave them to me, to befriend, even for a while, and that I was alive to know them. I knew Douglas Adams, and I knew Roger Zelazny, and I knew John M Ford, and I knew Diana Wynne Jones... do you know how lucky that makes me?
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inspirational
growing-older
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Neil Gaiman |
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We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.
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science
hope
inspirational
truth-of-life
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Albert Pike |
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Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
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inspirational
yoga
meditation
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Amit Ray |
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If you don't want a generation of robots, fund the arts!
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inspirational
robots
art
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Cath Crowley |
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Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.
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inspirational
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Theodore Roosevelt |
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When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
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inspirational
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Dean Koontz |
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Most of us lead far more meaningful lives than we know. Often finding meaning is not about doing things differently; it is about seeing familiar things in new ways.
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inspirational
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Rachel Naomi Remen |
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The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of the universe with regards to human life.
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humor
inspirational
satire
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Martin Amis |
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In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.
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inspirational
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Anthony Robbins |
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To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
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inspirational
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Kofi Annan |
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We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.
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religion
religious
inspirational
christian-behavior
christian
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Billy Graham |
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Every search begins with beginner's luck. And every search ends with the victor's being severely tested.
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inspirational
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Paulo Coelho |
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And I can imagine Farmer saying he doesn't care if no one else is willing to follow their example. He's still going to make these hikes, he'd insist, because if you say that seven hours is too long to walk for two families of patients, you're saying that their lives matter less than some others', and the idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that's wrong with the world.
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inspirational
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Tracy Kidder |
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you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!
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inspirational
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John Bytheway |
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A woman can't do anything about her appearance. Either she's pretty or she isn't. But her character is quite another matter.
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women
beauty
character
inspirational
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Julie Garwood |
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I write because I am alone and move through the world alone. No one will know what has passed through me... I write because there are stories that people have forgotten to tell, because I am a woman trying to stand up in my life... I write out of hurt and how to make hurt okay; how to make myself strong and come home, and it may be the only real home I'll ever have.
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writing
inspirational
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Natalie Goldberg |
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As I naturally go through a full range of emotions in my life, I mustn't feel ashamed for feeling lost, for it is honest and human to feel such.
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motivational
spiritual
philosophy
wisdom
inspirational
zen
peace
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Forrest Curran |
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The past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
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learning
inspiration
inspirational-quotes
inspire
life-quotes
living
inspiring
life
inspirational
experience
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Roy T. Bennett |
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Survivors can't always choose their methods.
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inspirational
survivors
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Patricia Briggs |
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Patience is a virtue, but there comes a moment when you must stop being patient and take the day by the throat and shake it. If it fights back; fine. I'd rather end up bloody at the end of the day, then unhurt with no progress made, no knowledge gained. I'd rather have a no, then nothing. I'd forgotten that about myself.
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inspirational
laurell-k-hamilton
fight
patience
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Laurell K Hamilton |
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Even in the far future
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korean
kpop
inspirational
music-lyrics
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BTS |
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The only people who can change the world are people who want to. And not everybody does.
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people
dreams
inspirational
change-the-world
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Hugh MacLeod |
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He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
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inspirational
loved-this-part-in-the-story
the-giver
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Lois Lowry |
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I think being a teenager is such a compelling time period in your life--it gives you some of your worst scars and some of your most exhilarating moments. It's a fascinating place; old enough to feel truly adult, old enough to make decisions that affect the rest of your life, old enough to fall in love, yet, at the same time too young (in most cases) to be free to make a lot of those decisions without someone else's approval.
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life
inspirational
teenagers
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Stephenie Meyer |
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Coming from your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man!
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marvel-comics
inspirational
stan-lee
spiderman
comics
marvel
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Stan Lee |
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Align yourself with people that you can learn from, people who want more out of life, people who are stretching and searching and seeking some higher ground in life.
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learn-people
les-brown
motivational
inspirational
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Les Brown |
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The most powerful magic of all is choice.
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motivational
inspirational
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Sara Raasch |
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Those who have a strong sense of love and belonging have the courage to be imperfect.
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be-yourself
courage-to-be-imperfect
love
inspirational
belonging
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Brené Brown |
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Make the choice to embrace this day. Do not let your TODAY be stolen by the ghost of yesterday or the "To-Do" list of tomorrow! It's inspiring to see all the wonderfully amazing things that can happen in a day in which you participate.
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action
compassion
choice
motivational
success
life
inspirational
participate
seize-the-day
today
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Steve Maraboli |
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They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
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good
inspirational
forgiving
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