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61290d9 Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people. being-human goodness human human-nature humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring kindness life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking smile smiles Roy T. Bennett
d452c5d Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. excuse improvement inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking respect Roy T. Bennett
a6c0083 Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. failure fearless inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational never-give-up optimism optimistic persistence positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking trying Roy T. Bennett
15116b4 Don't Jus act action change criticize doing dream dreams encouragement experience feeling giving inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes listening living optimism optimistic ponder positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking thinking transform Roy T. Bennett
dc146f4 Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! confidence inspirational inspirational-attitude life life-philosophy optimism power-of-words Mark A. Cooper
dc5fd8f If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it. believe believe-in-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
cfdbd50 The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. Other people's perception of you is a reflection of them; your response to them is an awareness of you. authentic-living awareness inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living perception Roy T. Bennett
0d16d75 Count your blessings, not your problems. Count your own blessings, not someone else's. Remember that jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own. blessings inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
129f96b Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. being-human happiness human human-nature humanism humanity inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring learning life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living love optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
ff35571 Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking start-up Roy T. Bennett
992c654 The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never tried. Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. failure fearless inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational never-give-up optimism optimistic persistence positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking strong trying Roy T. Bennett
c631341 You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in. authentic-living be-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
5c41aae Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking time Roy T. Bennett
d30af93 Successful people have no fear of failure. But unsuccessful people do. Successful people have the resilience to face up to failure--learn the lessons and adapt from it. failure fearless inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking success Roy T. Bennett
10e1960 It doesn't matter how many people you meet in your life; you just need the real ones who accept you for who you are and help you become who you should be. authentic-living inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living living-life-to-the-fullest optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
1c7eb37 What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else's opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people's opinions control you. authentic-living be-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
3be29bf Fear robs you of your freedom to make the right choice in life that can bridge the gap between where you are and where you want to be. On the other side of fear, lies freedom. If you want to grow, you need to be brave and take risks. If you're not uncomfortable, you're not growing. fearless growth inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
9333315 You were not born on earth to please anyone; you have to live life to express yourself, not to impress someone. Don't pretend to be someone you're not, and never lose yourself in search of other people's acceptance and approval. authentic-living be-yourself inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking Roy T. Bennett
54b191b Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself. inspiration inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quote inspirational-quotes inspire inspiring life life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes living motivation motivational optimism optimistic positive positive-affirmation positive-life positive-thinking relationship Roy T. Bennett
40a17d1 Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. best-books excellence good-books happin inspirational inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life life-and-living life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes motivation motivational-quotes wisdom Bohdi Sanders
853cd44 God helps those who strut their stuff. humor humor-inspirational inspirational life-philosophy motivational Dan Sofer
64a7f82 It was time to take the pumpkin out of the pot and eat it. In the final analysis, that was what solved these big problems of life. You could think and think and get nowhere, but you still had to eat your pumpkin. That brought you down to earth. That gave you a reason for going on. Pumpkin. life life-philosophy philosophy pumpkin Alexander McCall Smith
a18376a Who knew what evil lurked in the hearts of men? A copper, that's who. (...)You saw how close men lived to the beast. You realized that people like Carcer were not mad. They were incredibily sane. They were simply men without a shield. They'd looked at the world and realized that all the rules didn't have to apply to them, not if they didn't want them to. They weren't fooled by all the little stories. They shook hands with the beast. inspirational life-philosophy night-watch terry-pratchett Terry Pratchett
b470340 Just think! This whole world of ours is only a speck of mildew sprung up on a tiny planet, yet we think we can have something great - thoughts,, actions! They are all but grains of sand leo-tolstoy life life-philosophy Leo Tolstoy
8588e92 They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. life life-philosophy Bill Watterson
54fa1a9 There's no such thing as `one, true way'; the only answers worth having are the ones you find for yourself; leave the world better than you found it. Love, freedom, and the chance to do some good -- they're the things worth living and dying for, and if you aren't willing to die for the things worth living for, you might as well turn in your membership in the human race. inspirational life-philosophy truth Mercedes Lackey
a8399a3 "Fear of the unknown. They are afraid of new ideas. life-philosophy Wayne W. Dyer
08c6c69 There is no reality except in action. Man is nothing else than his plan; he exists only to the extent that he fulfills himself; he is therefore nothing else than the ensemble of his acts, nothing else than his life. existentialism life-philosophy Jean-Paul Sartre
9e8e2c9 You were not put on this earth just to get in touch with God. book-quotes life-philosophy Anthony Burgess
1466a40 The whole world is beautiful, Belgarion' Eriond assured him in response to that unspoken thought. 'You just have to know how to look at it life-philosophy wisdom David Eddings
435d67a Death paused. YOU HAVE PERHAPS HEARD THE PHRASE, he said, THAT HELL IS OTHER PEOPLE? 'Yes. Yes, of course.' Death nodded. IN TIME, he said, YOU WILL LEARN THAT IT IS WRONG. discworld life life-philosophy people small-gods Terry Pratchett
405269e She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life. life-philosophy politics russia John le Carré
6bda802 It might be a little silly for someone getting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly : I'm the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I'm the type of person who doesn't find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two everyday running alone, not speaking to anyone as well as four of five hours at my desk, to be neither difficult or boring. life life-philosophy lifestyle personal personalities personality Haruki Murakami
447d1c5 When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. fear-quote fearless-quotes fears life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes monster monsters writing-advice writing-life writing-philosophy Anne Lamott
fca73cf He's going to jail. He can't see. He can't hear. He can't take a leak that lasts under fifteen minutes. But he has an erection and all the other problems are small change. Next time around I'm coming back as a man. Priorities are clearly defined. Life is simple. life-philosophy Janet Evanovich
023bcc0 I've found that one must try and teach people that there's no top limit to disaster-that, so long as breath remains in your body, you've got accept the miseries of life. They will often seem infinite, insupportable. They are part of the human condition. life-philosophy Ian Fleming
86c3cc8 I'm just capable of entertaining the fantastic idea that, in certain circumstances, might actually be capable of thinking. It must be worth a go, since we've tried everything else. life-lessons life-philosophy living people thinking Terry Pratchett
ac80662 How did you get back?' asked Vautrin. 'I walked,' replied Eugene. 'I wouldn't like half-pleasures, myself,' observed the tempter. 'I'd want to go there in my own carriage, have my own box, and come back in comfort. All or nothing, that's my motto.' 'And a very good one,' said Madame Vauquer. life-philosophy manipulation Honoré de Balzac
ad029f9 Remember that there is only one important time and that is now. The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion. The most important person is always the person you are with, who is right before you, for who knows if you will have dealings with any other person in the future? The most important pursuit is making the person standing at your side happy, for that alone is the pursuit of life. imporatance-of-now inspiration-living inspirational inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes leo-tolstoy life life-experience life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes live-in-present most-important-thing now-quotes power-of-now questions suggestions what-to-do Leo Tolstoy
f014d32 All is in a man's hands and he lets it all slip from cowardice, that's an axiom. It would be interesting to know what it is men are most afraid of. Taking a new step, uttering a new word is what they fear most... . crime-and-punishment dostoevsky dostoyevski dostoyevsky life life-philosophy life-quotes russian-literature Fyodor Dostoyevsky
5c90f15 ... one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a One Way Street. life-and-living life-philosophy Agatha Christie
1aa9b18 I think balance is for people who don't know why they're here. life-philosophy Blake Crouch
b4574be You shall see rude and sturdy, experienced and wise men, keeping their castles, or teaming up their summer's wood, or chopping alone in the woods, men fuller of talk and rare adventure in the sun and wind and rain, than a chestnut is of meat; who were out not only in '75 and 1812, but have been out every day of their lives; greater men than Homer, or Chaucer, or Shakespeare, only they never got time to say so; they never took to the way of writing. Look at their fields, and imagine what they might write, if ever they should put pen to paper. Or what have they not written on the face of the earth already, clearing, and burning, and scratching, and harrowing, and plowing, and subsoiling, in and in, and out and out, and over and over, again and again, erasing what they had already written for want of parchment. inspirational-life life-philosophy nature transcendence work Henry David Thoreau
f6b6417 ...she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously if He himself never had. life life-philosophy Isabel Allende
f1c4a1e A sober friend from Texas said once that the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you. I hate this insight so much. insight life-philosophy Anne Lamott
3b24a7b Nationalism and ethnic pride, in the long run, delay human development, and the misery they cause must be recognized. If enough people saw that , maybe we wouldn't have so many wars. life-philosophy nationalism war Harvey Pekar
9d3b7c0 It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. history inspirational life life-philosophy love poetry Ursula K. Le Guin
a1ed248 Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? elizabeth-gilbert life-philosophy Elizabeth Gilbert
58101c7 He was a glass half full kind of person and she was...what? The glass is going to break before you can even pour kind of person. Yikes. life-philosophy Erin McCarthy
8e8ed8f And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease? identity life-philosophy philosophy science John Updike
91ab7c3 The best gifts are never given, but claimed. hard-work life-philosophy success Warren Ellis
25b3e22 We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe identity life-philosophy philosophy science John Updike
a36a30a "He had seen how the spirit, the reserves in [Bond], could pull him out of badly damaged conditions that would have broken the normal human being. He knew how a desperate situation would bring out those reserves again, how the will to live would spring up again in a real emergency. He remembered how countless neurotic patients had disappeared for ever from his consulting rooms when the last war had broken out. The big worry had driven out the smaller ones, the greater fear the lesser. He made up his mind. He turned back to M. "Give him one more chance." -- life-philosophy perserverance war Ian Fleming
42b75ac You had an image of life inside you, a belief or an ideal, that you were ready to do good deeds, to suffer, and to sacrifice - and by degrees you noticed that the world had no need of your good deeds, or sacrifices, and such like; that life was not an heroic tale, with roles for heroes, and such like, but a comfortable bourgeois parlour, where one is perfectly satisfied with eating and drinking, coffee and knitted stockings, tarot readings and music on the radio. And he who wants otherwise and has the heroic and the beautiful inside him, the veneration of great poets or the adoration of saints inside him, he is a fool and a knight errant, a latter day Don Quixote? life-philosophy truth wisdom Hermann Hesse
0a00dcd "lm 'kn '`rf kyf 'kwn 'y shy! lm 'stT` 'n 'kwn Hqwdan 'w Tyb lqlb, wl ndhlan 'w 'mynan, wl bTlan 'w Hshr@. nny '`ysh Hyty lan fy hdhh lzwy@, mhynan nfsy bmws@ Hqd@ Gyr mjdy@ ttmthl fy qwly lh: " an, w , ldhy ." inspirational life-philosophy life-truths phylosophy sad-but-true ugly-truths Fyodor Dostoyevsky
a6cc4b2 my khwstm bh mrdm bymwzm kh bh nbD Tby`t gwsh fr bdhnd, dr klyt w phnh zndgy f`lnh shrkt jwynd w, tHt fshr nshy z zndgy Hqyrshn, z yd nbrnd kh m khdwndn sTyry nystym w m khwdmn r nyfrydh ym, blkh kwdkn zmyn hstym w prh y z jhn hsty. hope life-philosophy Hermann Hesse
ac44f92 In paintings, music, poetry, architecture, we feel the elusive energy that moves through us and the air and the ground all the time, that usually disperses and turns chaotic in our busy-ness and distractedness and moodiness. Artists channel it, corral it, make it visible to the rest of us. The best works of art are like semaphores of our experience, signaling what we didn't know was true but do now. life-philosophy music poetry Anne Lamott
808635f Painted into a corner, caught in a cul-de-sac, out on that final last-chance limb, life scrabbles around, searching for a new way out. la-la-la life-philosophy Joseph Chilton Pearce
78fa727 Then I'll have more fun searching in vain then marrying one of the wrong sort. happiness inspirational life-philosophy marriage minset romance Erle Stanley Gardner
94ce3ac Memories are what you no longer want to remember. life-philosophy Joan Didion
623b224 Your grandmother thought--no, she believed, it was like a faith for her. She believed it the way some people believe in God or science. She believed that it was the rules that made her life so easy. She thought life was about the rules people make for it, as if life was some kind of a board game and if you had a little luck, and you kept to the rules, you'd end up winning. Or maybe she thought it was like a game of solitaire and once the cards had been shuffled and laid out, if you had a good draw you were safe, as if it was arranged for you to win. Or to lose, although Grandmother considered herself someone who had won, since all she had to do once she was born was follow the rules. But really, life's like a game of bridge: You're dealt a hand and it can be a winning hand or a losing one, but that doesn't necessarily mean that you'll win or lose because there are other people at the table, your partner for one, and the other ream for another, that's three people...playing too, and people make mistakes, multiply that times three too, or you can just be smarter than they are. And luckier too, because anybody who sits down to play bridge or life without figuring out how much luck is involved is making a Big Mistake. I don't want you girls doing that. cards life-philosophy luck rules Cynthia Voigt
681715e Vom Leben muss man saufen. life-philosophy Benjamin Lebert
995a356 Lo cierto y lo equivocado son solo modos diferentes de entender nuestra relacion con los demas, no la que tenemos con nosotros mismos, en esa no hay que confiar... life-philosophy life-quotes José Saramago
0d896f6 Solve problems, make art, think deeply. introversion life life-philosophy make-art solve-problems think-deeply thinking Susan Cain
5b56896 His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea... affluence albert-einstein-life-quotes brandi-bates life life-lessons life-philosophy love-quotes motivation opulence soledad-francis success truth-to-power wealth wisdom Brandi L. Bates
ae12650 cliche but accurate: Kick a football, then ask it whether it meant to fly. All action demands an equal and opposite reaction. You can't blame an object battered by inertial forces; you can't blame me, bouncing through the pinball machine of life. cause cause-and-effect cliche effect life life-lessons life-philosophy life-quotes result Robin Wasserman
113c323 Todas las especies humanas tienen sus caracteres, sus sellos clasicos, cada una tiene sus vicios y sus virtudes, cada una de ellas tiene su pecado mortal life-philosophy life-quotes steppenwolf Hermann Hesse
8af706f El sufrimiento, el desencanto y la melancolia existen no para irritarnos o para despojarnos de nuestra dignidad, sino para madurarnos y transfigurarnos. hurt-feelings life-philosophy life-quotes Hermann Hesse
5a4dd40 Quiza mi vida no es mas que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestion. life-philosophy Sena Jeter Naslund
13d0e7f [Nietzsche's] questions - transcend, but where to; ascend, but to what height? - would have answered themselves if he had calmly kept both feet on the ascetic ground. He was too sick to follow his most important insight: that the main thing in life is to take the minor things seriously. When minor things grow stronger, the danger posed by the main thing is contained; then climbing higher in the minor things means advancing in the main thing. ascetics friedrich-nietzsche life-lessons life-philosophy nietzsche Peter Sloterdijk
015a284 I cannot pretend that I regard this with favor, but the purpose of life is not to do what we want but what needs to be done. This is what fate demands of us. - Oromis inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy responsibility Christopher Paolini
85cb83c --?Adonde vamos' --pregunte. --No lo se--dijo--. Simplemente damos una vuelta en coche. --pero esta carretera no lleva a ninguna parte--le dije. --No importa. --?Y que es lo que importa? --le pregunte al cabo de un rato. --Solo que estamos en ella, tio --dijo. less-than-zero life-philosophy life-quotes road-quotes Bret Easton Ellis
d6de75f Cuando el valiente huye, la chupercheria esta descubierta. life-philosophy Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
8f6c175 Once upon a time, when I was young, his forgetting might have rendered my memory meaningless. I no longer require so much from life. growth life-philosophy meaning personal-development personal-development-insights Abigail Thomas
0c13cd9 ...und bekanntlich sind wir Manner das verlorene Glied zwischen dem Piraten und dem Schwein. life-philosophy sarcasm Carlos Ruiz Zafón
90b96a6 "You can weave your life so long--only so long," Coren says to Sybel, "and then a thing in the world out of your control will tug at one vital thread and leave you patternless and subdued." life-philosophy true-to-life Patricia A. McKillip
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