inspirational Quotes
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We read to know we're not alone.
William Nicholson
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The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
George Will
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We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.
Tom Stoppard
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Replace your judgments with empathy, upgrade your complaining to gratitude and trade in your fear for love.
Hal Elrod
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At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.
Erica Jong
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I did an A Level in Theatre Studies and had a really inspirational teacher, and then I just went on to university.
Jessica Raine
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Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.
Erma Bombeck
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If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun.
Dalai Lama
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When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.
Willa Cather
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
Donald Miller
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Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
Lou Holtz
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This above all; to thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T. S. Eliot
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Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation.
Dalai Lama
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O Christian! do not falter, The harvest field is white, And many souls are sinking Into eternal night.
William Evander Penn
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The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C. S. Lewis
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The immediate need for education and practice in using our natural resources of soil, forest, water, wildlife and areas of inspirational beauty to the best advantage of all, for this generation and others to come, is again apparent to every observant citizen.
Walt Disney
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At some point your heart will tell itself what to do.
Ajahn Chah
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Neither despise nor oppose what thou dost not understand.
William Penn
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Belief creates the actual fact.
William James
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The fire of literacy is created by the emotional sparks between a child, a book, and the person reading. It isn’t achieved by the book alone, nor by the child alone, nor by the adult who’s reading aloud—it’s the relationship winding between all three, bringing them together in easy harmony.
Mem Fox
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There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.
William Barclay