Inspirational Life Quotes - Page 33

• Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

  Saint Augustine

  Philosophical, Humility, Clouds

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• Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Happiness, Sad, Broken Heart

  "Meditations". Book by Marcus Aurelius (circa 170), p. 19, 1995 edition.

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• And thou wilt give thyself relief, if thou doest every act of thy life as if it were the last.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Life, Philosophical, Giving

  Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2016). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, Golden Sayings, Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus, Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.25, Enhanced Media Publishing

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• Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.

  Pearl Bailey

  Circles, Ideas, Black History

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• The world is before you, and you need not take it or leave it as it was when you came in.

  James A. Baldwin

  Life, Change, Needs

  "James Baldwin: My Uncle and His Love Life" by T. Better Baldwin, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2014.

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• For everything that lives is holy, life delights in life.

  William Blake

  Life, Growth, Delight

  William Blake (2000). “The Selected Poems of William Blake”, p.243, Wordsworth Editions

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• Love is when you meet someone who tells you something new about yourself.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Inspiring, Marriage

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• Look, I don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive you've got to flap your arms and legs, you've got to jump around a lot, for life is the very opposite of death, and therefore you must at very least think noisy and colorfully, or you're not alive.

  Mel Brooks

  Funny, Life, Witty

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• If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

  Les Brown

  Inspirational, Self Confidence, Growth

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• Goals help you channel your energy into action.

  Les Brown

  Powerful, Goal, Energy

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• A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Business, Goal, Negative

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.145, Bantam

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• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?

  Robert Browning

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Andrea del Sarto" l. 97 (1855)

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• Love is life. And if you miss love, you miss life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Inspirational, Boyfriend

  "Speaking Of Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1980.

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• What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Life, Happiness, Make Others Happy

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• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

  Lord Byron

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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  There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

  Willa Cather

  Inspirational, Summer, Nature

  Willa Cather (2013). “The Best of Willa Cather”, p.463, Simon and Schuster

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• In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Confidence, Fashion

  "Coco Chanel : Her Life, Her Secrets". Book by Marcel Haedrich, 1971.

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• We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Life, Spiritual, Positive Thinking

  "The Phenomenon of Man". Book by Pierre Teilhard De Chardin, 1955.

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• The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Fun, Garden, Playing Games

  "All Things Considered". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1908.

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• Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Freedom, Responsibility, Camels

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

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• You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Uplifting, Choices

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Aug 03, 2011

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• Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Inspirational, Success, Confidence

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.375

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• A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

  Grover Cleveland

  Lying, Patriotic, History

  Grover Cleveland (1909). “Addresses, State Papers and Letters”

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• Women are the largest untapped reservoir of talent in the world.

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Women

  "At the Pinnacle of Hillary Clinton's Career" by Rachael Combe, www.elle.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.

  Stephen Covey

  Change, Encouragement, Freedom

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