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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 humanism kindness human humanity goodness inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life love inspirational inspirational-quote smiles life-philosophy smile human-nature Roy T. Bennett
d452c5d Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote improvement excuse life-philosophy respect Roy T. Bennett
a6c0083 Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying. trying persistence inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote never-give-up fearless life-philosophy failure Roy T. Bennett
15116b4 Don't Jus action criticize dream learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life dreams change inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote transform act feeling doing giving encouragement ponder experience listening life-philosophy thinking Roy T. Bennett
dc146f4 Life has no remote....get up and change it yourself! confidence inspirational-attitude optimism life inspirational power-of-words life-philosophy Mark A. Cooper
dc5fd8f If you believe very strongly in something, stand up and fight for it. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational believe-in-yourself inspirational-quote believe life-philosophy 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living inspiring life-lessons life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy perception awareness 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote blessings life-philosophy Roy T. Bennett
129f96b Most of us must learn to love people and use things rather than loving things and using people. being-human humanism human humanity learning inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism happiness life love inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy human-nature Roy T. Bennett
ff35571 Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right. start-up inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy 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. trying persistence inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote never-give-up fearless life-philosophy strong failure Roy T. Bennett
c631341 You were born to stand out, stop trying to fit in. be-yourself inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy Roy T. Bennett
5c41aae Life is short. Focus on what really matters most. You have to change your priorities over time. time inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking success life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote fearless life-philosophy failure 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living living-life-to-the-fullest life-philosophy 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. be-yourself inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy 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. inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote growth fearless life-philosophy 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. be-yourself inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote authentic-living life-philosophy Roy T. Bennett
54b191b Be with someone who inspires you and makes you be the best version of yourself. relationship inspiration inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes inspire life-and-living life-quotes living motivation optimistic positive-affirmation positive-life inspiring positive positive-thinking motivational life-lessons optimism life inspirational inspirational-quote life-philosophy Roy T. Bennett
40a17d1 Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better. best-books happin inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-quotes motivation life-lessons life wisdom inspirational excellence motivational-quotes good-books life-experience life-philosophy Bohdi Sanders
853cd44 God helps those who strut their stuff. motivational humor inspirational humor-inspirational life-philosophy 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 philosophy pumpkin life-philosophy 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. terry-pratchett inspirational night-watch life-philosophy 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 life leo-tolstoy 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. truth inspirational life-philosophy 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. life-philosophy book-quotes Anthony Burgess
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. people life small-gods life-philosophy discworld Terry Pratchett
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 wisdom life-philosophy David Eddings
405269e She's become a Russian again, he thought. When something works, she's grateful. When it doesn't work, it's life. politics life-philosophy 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. personality life personal lifestyle personalities life-philosophy Haruki Murakami
447d1c5 When people shine a little light on their monster, we find out how similar most of our monsters are. writing-life life-quotes life-lessons fear-quote fearless-quotes writing-philosophy writing-advice life-philosophy fears monster monsters 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. people living life-lessons life-philosophy 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. manipulation life-philosophy Honoré de Balzac
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... . life-quotes life crime-and-punishment dostoevsky dostoyevski russian-literature dostoyevsky life-philosophy Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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. inspirational-attitude inspirational-life inspirational-quotes life-quotes life-lessons life inspirational imporatance-of-now inspiration-living live-in-present most-important-thing now-quotes power-of-now suggestions what-to-do leo-tolstoy life-experience life-philosophy questions Leo Tolstoy
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. nature work inspirational-life transcendence life-philosophy Henry David Thoreau
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
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
9d3b7c0 It is not death that allows us to understand each other, but poetry. history poetry life love inspirational life-philosophy Ursula K. Le Guin
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. life-philosophy insight Anne Lamott
a1ed248 Is this lifetime supposed to be only about duty? elizabeth-gilbert life-philosophy Elizabeth Gilbert
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. war nationalism life-philosophy Harvey Pekar
8e8ed8f And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease? identity science philosophy life-philosophy John Updike
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
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 phylosophy life-truths ugly-truths sad-but-true life-philosophy Fyodor Dostoyevsky
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? truth wisdom life-philosophy Hermann Hesse
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." -- war perserverance life-philosophy Ian Fleming
91ab7c3 The best gifts are never given, but claimed. success hard-work life-philosophy Warren Ellis
25b3e22 We must have sinned greatly, at some juncture long buried in our protozoic past, to deserve such a universe identity science philosophy life-philosophy John Updike
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
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. marriage romance happiness inspirational minset life-philosophy Erle Stanley Gardner
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. poetry music life-philosophy Anne Lamott
94ce3ac Memories are what you no longer want to remember. life-philosophy Joan Didion
681715e Vom Leben muss man saufen. life-philosophy Benjamin Lebert
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
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-quotes life-philosophy José Saramago
0d896f6 Solve problems, make art, think deeply. life life-philosophy introversion make-art solve-problems think-deeply thinking Susan Cain
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 responsibility inspirational-quotes life-and-living life-lessons life-philosophy Christopher Paolini
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-quotes steppenwolf life-philosophy 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. life-quotes hurt-feelings life-philosophy Hermann Hesse
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. life-quotes road-quotes less-than-zero life-philosophy Bret Easton Ellis
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. meaning personal-development-insights personal-development growth life-philosophy Abigail Thomas
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
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. life-quotes life-lessons life cause-and-effect cliche cause effect result life-philosophy Robin Wasserman
5b56896 His ruby red rimmed moist eyes were two glasses of cranberry. He wore a cashmere sweater the color of Earl Grey tea... love-quotes wealth motivation success life-lessons life wisdom affluence brandi-bates albert-einstein-life-quotes opulence soledad-francis truth-to-power life-philosophy Brandi L. Bates
d6de75f Cuando el valiente huye, la chupercheria esta descubierta. life-philosophy Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
0c13cd9 ...und bekanntlich sind wir Manner das verlorene Glied zwischen dem Piraten und dem Schwein. life-philosophy sarcasm Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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. life-lessons ascetics friedrich-nietzsche nietzsche life-philosophy Peter Sloterdijk
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." true-to-life life-philosophy Patricia A. McKillip
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