Inspiring Quotes - Page 29

• The more in harmony with yourself you are, the more joyful you are, and the more faithful you are. Faith is not to disconnect you from reality, it connects you to reality.

  Paulo Coelho

  Reality, Faithful, Honest

  "Paulo Coelho on Jesus, Twitter and the difference between defeat and failure" by Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2013.

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• The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Giving Up, Inspiration, Blow

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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• Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.

  Nelson Mandela

  Enjoy Life, Challenges, Disease

  "Who Is Nelson Mandela? A Reader's Digest Exclusive Interview". Interview with Caitlin O'Connell, www.rd.com. 2005.

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• Life's too mysterious to take too serious.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Serious, Mysterious

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• I've never been as happy as I am now, because I followed the signs, I was patient, and I know that this is going to change everything.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Patient

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• Remember the saying, What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger? It's true!

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Trust No One

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• There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Encouraging

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• A warrior takes every opportunity to teach himself.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Warrior

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• You can achieve anything if you believe in yourself. But the opposite is also true; without strong self-belief you will not go far.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Happiness, Strong

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• There is no such thing as being non-political. Just by making a decision to stay out of politics you are making the decision to allow others to shape politics and exert power over you. And if you are alienated from the current political system, then just by staying out of it you do nothing to change it, you simply entrench it.

  Joan Kirner

  Empowering, Decision, Political

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• War is not women's history.

  Virginia Woolf

  War, Empowering

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• Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.""Laughter is good for thinking because when people laugh, it is easier for them to admit new ideas to their minds.

  Dalai Lama

  Laughter, Thinking, Compassion

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• But the artist persists because he has the will to create, and this is the magic power which can transform and transfigure and transpose and which will ultimately be transmitted to others.

  Anais Nin

  Artist, Empowering, Magic

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• Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Country, Numbers, Empowering

  Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.96, Tara Publishing

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• Let us realize that engagement and detachment aren't opposite-the more engaged we become, the more detached we will have to be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Opposites, Empowering, Engagement

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• Let us not demand of ourselves that we alone must be the agent of change. In a fire brigade everyone passes along a bucket, but only the last person puts out the fire. None of us know where we stand in line. We may be here simply to pass a bucket; we may be called on to play a major role. In either case, all we can do is think, act, and say. Let us direct our thoughts, words, and actions to peace. That is all we can do. Let the results be what they will be.

  Deepak Chopra

  Thinking, Fire, Play

  "Where Is Peace In a Time of War?" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 31, 2006.

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• So I grew up feeling that I wasn't good enough, and that no-one would love me unless I was perfect. But no-one's perfect, we're not meant to be perfect. We're meant to be complete. But it's hard to be complete if you're trying to be perfect, so you kind of become disembodied. And I spent a lot of my life that way.""And if you don't own your strength... Women like me tend to always look over their shoulder to see who... "Who's the leader? Who's the smart one?" Never thinking it might be ME. Took a long time for me to get over that.

  Jane Fonda

  Smart, Thinking, Long

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• Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves-to breakour own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today."Stewart B. Johnson"Men rule because women let them. Male misogyny is real enough, and it has dreadful consequences, but female misogyny is what keeps women out of power.

  Germaine Greer

  Real, Men, Yesterday

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• Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.

  Laura Z. Hobson

  Mother, Jobs, Pain

  Laura Z. Hobson (2011). “Gentleman's Agreement”, p.310, Open Road Media

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• The legend engraved on the face of the Jewish nickel- on the body of every Jewish child!- not IN GOD WE TRUST, but SOMEDAY YOU'LL BE A PARENT AND YOU'LL KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE.

  Philip Roth

  Children, Parent, Body

  Philip Roth (2005). “Novels, 1967-1972”

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• So often we want happiness, but the very way we pursue it is so clumsy and unskillful that it brings only more sorrow. Usually we assume we must grasp in order to have that something that will ensure our happiness. [...] Learning to live is learning to let go.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Letting Go, Order, Sorrow

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.40, Harper Collins

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• Appreciation is the legal tender that all souls enjoy.

  Dale Carnegie

  Appreciation, Soul, Influential

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Brother, Moving, Grandmother

  Oprah Winfrey (2014). “What I Know For Sure”, p.48, Macmillan

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• Uniqueness does not come from external things that people do to themselves or other things like what they wear. All the uniqueness that radiates to the world comes from how you deal with the world, your best inner strengths. It never comes from a tattoo or a designer outfit.

  Eva Mozes Kor

  Tattoo, People, Inner Strength

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• A true professional feels no pressure to run up a client's bill, knowing that any reduction in revenues caused by being efficient will be more than recompensed by the reputation earned for being honest and trustworthy.

  David Maister

  Running, Knowing, Bills

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