Inspirational Quotations

 

The more that he spoke of his honor, the faster we counted the spoons.

Emerson

The most beautiful view is the one I share with you. 

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The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.

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The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

Albert Einstein 

The only thing that affects your destiny is the thought you are thinking at the moment.

Abraham-Hicks

The only thing that matters is that it matters.

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The only thing you cannot afford to postpone is joy.

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The only true measure of success is joy.

Charley Thweatt

The past is a cancelled check. The future is a promissory note. The present is cash in hand.

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The purpose of life is a life of purpose. 

Robert Byrne

The purpose of life is for the individual to become greater than the definitions he has inherited.

James Baldwin

The purpose of life is not to arrive safely at death.

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The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

G.K. Chesterton

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the back yard looking for four-leaf clovers.

Walter P. Chrysler

The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.

G.K. Chesterton

The secret of genius is focus. 

Abraham-Hicks

The secret of getting close to your kids is to know when to stay away from them.

Ward Cleaver

The secret of life is to believe the more I ask, the more I receive.

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The secret of relationship is the same as living in California: Don’t dwell on the faults.

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The secret of writing is to write. The secret of doing anything is to do it.

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The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.

Lao-Tse

The student will rise to the level of the teacher’s expectation.

Jaime Escalante

The sun too penetrates the privies, but it is not polluted by them.

Diogenes

The tide always comes back in.

Norman Vincent Peale

The trick . . . was for Jonathan to stop seeing himself as trapped inside a limited body with a forty-two inch wingspan.  . . The trick was to know that his true nature lived,
as perfect as an unwritten number, everywhere at once across space and time.

Richard Bach

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.

Lily Tomlin

The truly adventurous would just jump over their neighbor’s fence.

G.K. Chesterfield

The truth about “I can’t” is “I won’t.”

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The truth is always exciting. Speak it, then. Life is dull without it.

Pearl
S. Buck

The truth is simple. If it were complicated, everyone would understand it.

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The truth will set you free, but first it will annoy you big-time.

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The universe is not trying to hurt you. It’s trying to set you free.

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The voice of God is as loud as your willingness to listen.

A Course in Miracles 

The way out is in.

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The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. 

Mahatma Gandhi

The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

The winds of grace are blowing all the time.  We have only to raise our sails.

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The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within that endangers him, not the storm without.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The witch doctor succeeds for the same reason all the rest of us succeed. 
Each patient carries his own doctor inside him . . . We are at our best
when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.

Albert Schweitzer

 

   

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