Various Quotes

I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.

E. M. Forster

Mother, War, Grateful

E. M. Forster (2016). “Howards End: England Literature”, p.75, 谷月社

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I don't believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn't matter - it's only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you.

Henry Rollins

Hate, Believe, Fate

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It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

Confucius

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Paulo Coelho

Encouraging, Courage, Inspiration

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 15, 2012

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Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.

Anais Nin

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

Inspirational, Life, Positive

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You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Beverly Sills

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

"Incredible Quotations: 230 Thought-Provoking Quotes with Prompts to Spark Students' Writing, Thinking, and Discussion". Book by Jacqueline Sweeney, 1997.

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Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Andy Rooney

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspirational, Life, Success

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Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

Steve Jobs

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Brian Tracy

Life, Change, Positive

FaceBook post by Brian Tracy from Aug 12, 2014

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To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

Nhat Hanh

Inspirational, Beauty, Beautiful

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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Catherine Ponder

Relationship, Forgiveness, Emotional

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There is already something like a Jewish monopoly in high finance... here is the same element of Jewish monopoly in the silver trade, and in the control of various other metals, notably lead, nickel, quicksilver. What is most disquieting of all, this tendency to monopoly is spreading like a disease.

Hilaire Belloc

Elements, Disease, Finance

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There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

Leonard Cohen

Life, Motivational, Inspiring

Song: Anthem

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All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

Walt Disney

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

James A. Garfield

Teacher, Encouragement, Strong Women

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Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

Margaret Mead

Inspirational, Life, Friendship

Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

"P.S. I Love You: When Mom Wrote, She Always Saved the Best for Last". Book by H. Jackson Brown, Jr., March 1, 1991.

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Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

John C. Maxwell

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Steve Jobs

Change, Positive, Happiness

Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more

Pope Francis

Children, Home, Men

Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.129, SPCK

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Some persons can give themselves away to an ambitious pursuit and have that be all the giving-themselves-away-to-something they need to do. Though sometimes this changes as the players get older and the pursuit more stress-fraught. American experience seems to suggest that people are virtually unlimited in their need to give themselves away, on various levels. Some just prefer to do it in secret.

David Foster Wallace

Stress, Player, People

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I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

David Nicholls

Moving, Heart, Ideas

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