Inspiring Quotes - Page 12

• We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

  Thornton Wilder

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

  Thornton Wilder (1958). “The Cabala ; The Woman of Andros”

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• It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences.

  Audre Lorde

  Inspirational, Equality, Differences

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• You are not Atlas carrying the world on your shoulder. It is good to remember that the planet is carrying you.

  Vandana Shiva

  Inspirational, Atlas, World

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• To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

  Lewis B. Smedes

  Inspirational, Happiness, Forgiveness

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• I'm always doing things I can't do. That's how I get to do them.

  Pablo Picasso

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Wise, Reader, Wells

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

  Alfred Sheinwold

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Dream, Reality, Insomnia

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• The only thing worse than starting something and failing... is not starting something.

  Seth Godin

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

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• When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Suicide, Strong Women, Powerful

  "Malala Yousafzai addresses Harvard audience" by Brian MacQuarrie, www.bostonglobe.com. September 28, 2013.

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• Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

  Bernard Williams

  Inspirational, Positive, Moving On

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• Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

  Matthew Arnold

  Inspirational, Sadness, Discovery

  'Self-Dependence' (1852) l. 31

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• I think that's what I love about my life. There's no maniacal master plan. It's just unfolding before me.

  Cate Blanchett

  Inspirational, Thinking, Masters

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• Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.

  George Adair

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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  It takes no compromising to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual. It takes no survey to remove repressions.

  Harvey Milk

  Gay, Equality, Rights

  Harvey Milk (2013). “An Archive of Hope: Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• Angels appear in many different forms to hold your hand through the difficult times.

  Doreen Virtue

  Angel, Hands, Different

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• I believe in the strength and intelligence and sensitivity of women. My mother, my sisters [they] are strong. My mum is a strong woman and I love her for it.

  Tom Hiddleston

  Mom, Mother, Strong Women

  "Tom Hiddleston: A god among men?". Interview with Annabel Brog, www.elleuk.com. June 16, 2014.

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• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Home

  Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1979.

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  Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

  Francis Chan

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.92, David C Cook

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• Real genius is nothing else but the supernatural virtue of humility in the domain of thought.

  Simone Weil

  Inspirational, Real, Humble

  Simone Weil (2015). “Selected Essays, 1934-1943: Historical, Political, and Moral Writings”, p.25, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

  John Steinbeck

  Encouragement, I Hate You, Perfect

  John Steinbeck (2001). “Novels, 1942-1952”

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• The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspirational, Cute, Beauty

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• Have the courage to say no. Have the courage to face the truth. Do the right thing because it is right. These are the magic keys to living your life with integrity.

  W. Clement Stone

  Strength, Courage, Honesty

  "Teen Ink: What Matters". Book by Stephanie H. Meyer, John Meyer and Peggy Veljkovic (p. 309), April 15, 2003.

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• It is not your business to love me. It is mine.

  Byron Katie

  Mines

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