Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 24

• Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

  Eudora Welty

  Life, Travel, Inspiration

  Eudora Welty (1995). “One Writer's Beginnings”, p.76, Harvard University Press

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• My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.

  William Allen White

  Women, America, Advice

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  Walt Whitman

  Sad, Appreciation, Self Esteem

  "Song of Myself " l. 1 (written 1855)

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• The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  Oscar Wilde

  Love, Inspirational, Positive

  The Importance of Being Earnest act 1 (1895)

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• Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.

  David Wilkerson

  Love, Relationship, Inspiring

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• There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

  Bernard Williams

  Happiness, Dog, Nature

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• Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

  Tennessee Williams

  Life, Inspiring, Memories

  Tennessee Williams (1964). “The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore”, p.36, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Over the years I have developed a picture of what a human being living humanely is like. She is a person who understand, values and develops her body, finding it beautiful and useful; a person who is real and is willing to take risks, to be creative, to manifest competence, to change when the situation calls for it, and to find ways to accommodate to what is new and different, keeping that part of the old that is still useful and discarding what is not.

  Virginia Satir

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Real

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  Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Life, I Hate You, Weight

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.113, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes even a single day, can change the course of a whole lifetime.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Life, May, Sometimes

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.67, A&C Black

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• Well-behaved women seldom make history.

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

  Funny, Strength, Inspiring

  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2015). “The Slogan”, Vintage

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• Maybe everyone can live beyond what they're capable of.

  Markus Zusak

  Life, Inspiring, Philosophy

  Markus Zusak (2007). “I Am the Messenger”, p.353, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

  William Faulkner

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "William Faulkner, The Art of Fiction No. 12". Interview with Jean Stein, www.theparisreview.org. 1956.

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  Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

  Dolly Parton

  Life, Happiness, Being Yourself

  Twitter post from Jul 20, 2009

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• To think is easy. To act is hard. But the hardest thing in the world is to act in accordance with your thinking.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny Inspirational, Integrity, Funny Motivational

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• The real things haven't changed. It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.

  Laura Ingalls Wilder

  Honesty, Good Life, Real

  Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane (1988). “A Little House sampler”, Univ of Nebraska Pr

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• You get what anybody gets - you get a lifetime.

  Neil Gaiman

  Life, Lifetime

  "Sandman: Preludes and Nocturnes". Comic book by Neil Gaiman, 1989.

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• A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Family

  "Zen and the Art of Making a Living: A Practical Guide to Creative Career Desig". Book by Laurence G. Boldt (p. 100), 1993.

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• The best of times is now.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Life And Death

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• You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.

  Max Lucado

  Inspirational, Mold, Broke

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• Your life is an occasion. Rise to it.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Inspirational, Life, Rising

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• If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

  Rick Riordan

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• Instructions for living a life. Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

  Mary Oliver

  Life, Pay, Attention

  FaceBook post by Mary Oliver from Sep 17, 2016

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• What would come, would come...and you would have to meet it, when it did.

  J. K. Rowling

  Life

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• Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Hope, Stars

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