Inspirational Quotes
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
"You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,Love like you'll never be hurt,Sing like there's nobody listening,And live like it's heaven on earth."
"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."
"So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to figure out how that could be."
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
"It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."
"You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love."
"Well-behaved women seldom make history."
"I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time."
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always."
"Peace begins with a smile.."
"[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!"
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live."
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win."
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
"May you live every day of your life."
"Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"
"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life."
"Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops at all."
"If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself."
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."
"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")"
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."
"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."
"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."
"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass."
"And, in the endThe love you takeis equal to the love you make."
"The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
"What I need is the dandelion in the spring. The bright yellow that means rebirth instead of destruction. The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again."
"I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?"
"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
"It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it."
"None but ourselves can free our minds."
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
"Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
"I don't trust people who don't love themselves and tell me, 'I love you.' ... There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
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