Inspiring Quotes - Page 21

• Things must be felt with the heart.

  Helen Keller

  Long Distance Relationship, Valentine, Heart

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• If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

  Audre Lorde

  Being Yourself, People, Diversity

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• You are the sum total of everything you've ever seen, heard, eaten, smelled, been told, forgot - it's all there. Everything influences each of us, and because of that I try to make sure that my experiences are positive.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Positive, Powerful

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• Thousands of people who say they "love" animals sit down once or twice a day to enjoy the flesh of creatures who have been utterly deprived of everything that could make their lives worth living and who endured the awful suffering and the terror of the abattoirs...

  Jane Goodall

  Animal, Vegetarianism, People

  "The Ten Trusts". Book by Jane Goodall, ‎Marc Bekoff, 2003.

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• You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them.

  Shonda Rhimes

  Strong Women, Drawing, Live Your Life

  "Grey's Anatomy". www.imdb.com. 2005-.

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• The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Simple, Simplicity

  Alan Watts (2011). “Eastern Wisdom, Modern Life: Collected Talks: 1960-1969”, p.37, New World Library

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  In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute.

  Thurgood Marshall

  Inspirational, Freedom, Black History

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• Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

  Erica Jong

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Fear of Flying". Book by Erica Jong, 1973.

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• You go through big chunks of time where you're just thinking, 'this is impossible - oh,this is impossible'. And then you just keep going and keep going, and you sort of do the impossible.

  Tina Fey

  Humor, Parenting, Thinking

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• All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

  Julie Andrews

  Careers, Bats, Thousand

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

  Aristotle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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• Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

  Annie Besant

  Thinking, Silent, Happy Independence Day

  Annie Besant (1917). “The Birth of New India: A Collection of Writings and Speeches on Indian Affairs”

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• The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Inspirational, Memorial Day, Freedom

  John Brown ch. 13 (1909)

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• A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

  Joseph Campbell

  Life, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

  Coco Chanel

  Strength, Courage, Fashion

  "Believing in Ourselves" by Armand Eisen, (p. 39), 1992.

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

  Hillary Clinton

  Inspirational, Women, World

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

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• We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society.

  Angela Davis

  African American, Mind, Society

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  When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

  Wayne Dyer

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Oct 05, 2011

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• Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

  Thomas A. Edison

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "From Telegraph to Light Bulb with Thomas Edison". Book by Deborah Headstrom-Page, 2007.

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• Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Art, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jul 07, 2011

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• Sit with those who love Allah, for that enlightens the mind.

  Umar

  Mind, Enlightening, Love Allah

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• Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about suffering and its stupidity and lack of sophistication could be plumbed for centuries but suffice it to say that the existence of broccoli does not, in any way, affect the taste of chocolate.

  John Green

  Pain, Thinking, Stupidity

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.35, Penguin

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• The first person you have to inspire every day is yourself. Running will do that.

  Marc Parent

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

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• Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

  Rumi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  "Path for Greatness : Work as Spiritual Service". Book by Linda J. Ferguson, p. 51, 2000.

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