Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 26

• but whatever came, she had resolved never again to belong to another than herself.

  Kate Chopin

  Awakening, Awakened

  Kate Chopin (1899). “The Awakening”, p.208

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• The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Spiritual, Doe

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, HarperCollins

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• Desire is half of life, indifference is half of death.

  Khalil Gibran

  Life, Desire, Half

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• Seek to live,remembrance is for the old.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Remembrance

  "By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept". Book by Paulo Coelho, 1994.

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• We have no future because our present is too volatile. We have only risk management. The spinning of the given moment's scenarios. Pattern recognition.

  William Gibson

  Life, Risk, Patterns

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

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• Whatever life takes away from you, let it go.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Life, Let It Go, Four Agreements

  "The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom". Book by Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997.

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• Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

  Jeannette Walls

  Life, Fall, Important

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• I like to believe that you don't need to reach a certain goal to be happy. I prefer to think that happiness is always there, and that when things don't go the way we might like them to, it's a sign from above that something even better is right around the corner.

  David Archuleta

  Life, Believe, Thinking

  David Archuleta (2010). “Chords of Strength: A Memoir of Soul, Song and the Power of Perseverance”, p.207, Penguin

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• Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

  Ann Patchett

  Life, Mean, Gone

  Ann Patchett (2008). “What Now?”, Harpercollins

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• That's the thing about lessons, you always learn them when you don't expect them or want them.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Life, Want, Lessons

  Cecelia Ahern (2007). “If You Could See Me Now”, Hyperion

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• We make messes of our lives, but every now and then, we manage to do something that's exactly right. The challenge is figuring out which is which.

  Jodi Picoult

  Life, Challenges, Now And Then

  Jodi Picoult (2007). “Vanishing acts”, p.415, Simon and Schuster

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• There will be a few times in your life when all your instincts will tell you to do something, something that defies logic, upsets your plans, and may seem crazy to others. When that happens, you do it. Listen to your instincts and ignore everything else. Ignore logic, ignore the odds, ignore the complications, and just go for it.

  Judith McNaught

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Judith McNaught (2003). “Remember When”

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• Listen to your life. All moments are key moments.

  Frederick Buechner

  Spiritual, Keys, Moments

  Frederick Buechner (2009). “Listening to Your Life: Daily Meditations with Frederick Buechne”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• So the fact that I’m me and no one else is one of my greatest assets. Emotional hurt is the price a person has to pay in order to be independent.

  Haruki Murakami

  Running, Hurt, Independent

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• If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

  Anne Lamott

  Courage, Doors, Castles

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.198, Anchor

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• Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.

  Jennifer Egan

  Life, Unique, Keys

  Jennifer Egan (2010). “A Visit from the Goon Squad”, p.74, Anchor

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• There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Motivation, Purpose

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• What it taught me was forgiveness. It taught me that when people present themselves in a certain way, there's probably some back story or issue or reason for the way that they are. It's not you. It's them. And a lot of times, its about something that's completely out of their control

  Denzel Washington

  Life, Success, Faith

  Denzel Washington, Daniel Paisner (2006). “A Hand to Guide Me”, p.172, Meredith Books

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• Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!

  Jillian Michaels

  Life, Fitness, Determination

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• You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

  John Adams

  Education, Men, Good Man

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• Always do more than is required of you.

  George S. Patton

  Motivational, Inspiring, Graduation

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• The only thing that made me, or any of us, special was that no one in the whole of history would ever see the universe exactly the same way any other of us saw it.

  Grant Morrison

  Special, Way, Saws

  Grant Morrison (2011). “Supergods: Our World in the Age of the Superhero”, p.276, Random House

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• You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I am thankful to all those who said no. It's because of them, I did it myself.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Positive, Brilliant

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• Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.

  C. S. Lewis

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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