Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 28

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Life, Motivational, Encouragement

  Alexander Woollcott (1951). “The Indispensable Woollcott”

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  The hardest thing to do is work hard when no one is watching.

  Ray Lewis

  Hard Work, Grind, Hardest

  FaceBook post by Ray Lewis from Apr 20, 2015

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• My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past.

  Hugh Leonard

  Life, Past, Moments

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• I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

  Brené Brown

  Motivational, Self Love, Stories

  Brené Brown (2010). “The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.

  Luke Parker

  Inspirational, Doing You, Enjoy

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• Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates

  Good Life, Matter, Life Is

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• Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.

  Stephanie Dowrick

  Life, Vision, Sacred

  Stephanie Dowrick (2011). “Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Ultimately we want to use dream to liberate ourselves from all relative conditions, not simply to improve them.

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

  Life, Dream, Use

  Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.78, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.

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• Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

  David Richo

  Relationship, Beautiful, Get Well

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• Never curse a fall. The ground is where humility lives.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Fall, Humility, Curse

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• Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.

  Mary Esther Harding

  Inspirational, Consciousness, Conflict

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• Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Doors, Persons, Ifs

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• The world is not ready for some people when they show up, but that shouldn't stop anyone.

  Ashly Lorenzana

  Inspirational, Freedom, Differences

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• Let us say "Yes" to life and not death. Let us say "Yes" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say "Yes" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints.

  Pope Francis

  Inspirational, Love Life, Idols

  Pope Francis (2017). “Happiness in This Life: A Passionate Meditation on Material Existence and the Meaning of Life”, p.41, Pan Macmillan

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• The most important aspect of my personality as far as determining my success goes; has been my questioning conventional wisdom, doubting experts and questioning authority. While that can be painful in your relationships with your parents and teachers, it's enormously useful in life.

  Larry Ellison

  Inspirational, Teacher, Personality

  "Prophet of Software". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. May 22, 1997.

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• Decide what it is that you are and then stay true to that thing. My brand is based very much on how I live my day-to-day life.

  Rachael Ray

  Inspirational, Stay True, Brands

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• The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Inspirational, Meaning Of Life, Intellect

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• No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Life, Nature

  Joseph Campbell (2008). “The Hero with a Thousand Faces”, p.331, New World Library

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• Art is by nature optimistic. Art is optimistic because it is alive.

  Patti Smith

  Inspirational, Life, Art

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• Paganism is the worship of life itself in its supreme mysteries of ecstasy and love.

  Jane Ellen Harrison

  Inspirational, Life, And Love

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• Do we, holding that the gods exist, deceive ourselves with insubstantial dreams and lies, while random careless chance and change alone control the world?

  Euripides

  Inspirational, Life, God

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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• ..the establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive that induced me to the field of battle.

  George Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Religious

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• The surface of things is not where attention should rest.

  Terence McKenna

  Inspirational, Life, Attention

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