Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 21

• Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Life, Wisdom, Taken

  D. H. Lawrence, Michael Herbert (1988). “Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays”, p.262, Cambridge University Press

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• Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Happiness

  Metropolitan Life (1978) p. 101

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• Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so.

  Doris Lessing

  Inspirational, Success, Opportunity

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, 2006.

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• Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Wisdom, Teacher

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• A house divided against itself cannot stand.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Leadership, Twilight, Presidential

  Speech at Republican state convention nominating him to run for U.S. senator, Springfield, Ill., 16 June 1858

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• Everybody likes a compliment.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Life, President, Likes

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• People seldom see the halting and painful steps by which the most insignificant success is achieved.

  Anne Sullivan Macy

  Success, Education, Learning

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• The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.

  James Madison

  Education, Freedom, Knowledge

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.41, University of Virginia Press

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• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress.

  Maimonides

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Leadership, Power, Greatness

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Peace, Power & Plenty (Unabridged): Before a Man Can Lift Himself, He Must Lift His Thought”, p.95, e-artnow

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• Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.

  Rollo May

  Inspirational, Life, Sympathy

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• We are the hero of our own story.

  Mary McCarthy

  Self Esteem, Hero, Healing

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Our differences are policies; our agreements, principles.

  William McKinley

  Success, Agreement, Differences

  William McKinley's speech in Des Moines, Iowa, 1901.

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  H. L. Mencken

  Life, Spiritual, War

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.131, Vintage

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  Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

  Arthur Miller

  Life, Regret, Mistake

  FaceBook post by Arthur Miller from May 08, 2014

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• Life's under no obligation to give us what we expect.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Life, Positive, Hope

  Margaret Mitchell (1936). “Gone with the wind”, Avon Books

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• I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Life, Philosophy, Humble

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.611, Stanford University Press

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• Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

  Florence Nightingale

  Happiness, Nursing, Progress

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.13, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  Anais Nin

  Memorable, Writing, Bad Ass

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• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

  Sean O'Casey

  Life, Song, Insightful

  E. H. Mikhail, Sean O'Casey, John O'Riordan (1974). “The sting and the twinkle: conversations with Sean O'Casey”

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• I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

  Georgia O'Keeffe

  Inspirational, Life, Courage

  Dennis Abrams, Georgia O'Keeffe (2009). “Georgia O'Keeffe”, p.56, Infobase Publishing

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• Choose people who lift you up.

  Michelle Obama

  People, Lift You Up, Lifts

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

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• Each person must live their life as a model for others.

  Rosa Parks

  Life, Morning, Women

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When we are in love we seem to ourselves quite different from what we were before.

  Blaise Pascal

  Love, Inspiring, Pregnancy

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• Chance favors the prepared mind.

  Louis Pasteur

  Inspirational, Softball, Sports

  Lecture, University of Lille, December 7б 1854.

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