inspirational Quotes
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Growing up, in church we had the homily; at home it's what I call the 'momily' - the inspirational and instructive mom-isms that every family has.
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When you leave the familiar and enter the unknown, your fear becomes refined by experience and hammered into tools of survival on the anvil of anxiety.
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Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.
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I had to grow to love my body. I did not have a good self-image at first. Finally it occurred to me, I'm either going to love me or hate me. And I chose to love myself. Then everything kind of sprung from there. Things that I thought weren't attractive became sexy. Confidence makes you sexy.
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Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.
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For all its considerable merits and inspirational principles, the American system is based upon a continuous uninterrupted process of election campaigns, stretching out year after year. Lost in the perpetual scramble is any long-term vision.
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I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.
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The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?
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Give up being perfect for being authentic. Be who you are. Love who you are. Others will too.
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Dream big, stay positive, work hard, and enjoy the journey.
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'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise.
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Never settle for anything less than your best.
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Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.
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I am a woman and when I think, I must speak.
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Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
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I do believe that most men live lives of quiet desperation. For despair, optimism is the only practical solution. Hope is practical. Because eliminate that and it's pretty scary. Hope at least gives you the option of living.
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Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty
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One of the marks of successful people is they are action oriented. One of the marks of average people is they are talk oriented.
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I come from a people who gave the Ten Commandments to the world. Time has come to strenghten them by three additional ones, which we ought to adopt and commit ourselves to: thou shall not be a perpetrator; thou shall not be a victim; and thou shall never, but never, be a bystander.
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If I am happy inside, then I live in paradise no matter where my residence is.
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This generation of Christians is responsible for this generation of souls on the earth!
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It's just that...I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.
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My wretched dragon is perplexed.
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The mark of a good book is it changes every time you read it.
