inspirational Quotes
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I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.
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If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.
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The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
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Peak performance begins with your taking complete responsibility for your life and everything that happens to you.
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When something needs to be done in the world to rectify the wrongs, if one is really concerned with benefiting others, one needs to be engaged, involved. This is action out of compassion.
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Your mind will answer most questions if you learn to relax and wait for the answer.
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Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not understand, and spread them out in the sunlight and know the meaning of them.
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If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want to help, which end will you lift on?
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Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
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The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.
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I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
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Well, in regards to surfing, I’ve learned that there is always another wave coming. Translated that means there is always tomorrow. No matter how badly you get caught inside, if you can just hang in there and keep paddling, the set is going to pass and there will be a lull afterwards. So don’t give up, just take your pounding, wait until the set passes, then make your move.
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I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
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Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.
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Hey, people who travel with their bed pillow. You look insane.
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One reason so few of us achieve what we truly want is that we never direct our focus; we never concentrate our power. Most people dabble their way through life, never deciding to master anything in particular.
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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
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My new years resolution? I will be less laz.
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In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility and compassion - ways of proceeding that grow more and more necessary as the world crowds in.
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I believe through learning and application of what you learn, you can solve any problem, overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal that you can set for yourself.
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No legacy is so rich as honesty.
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Forgiveness means that problems of the past no longer dictate our destinies, and we can focus on the future with God's love in our hearts.
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Our challenge is not to educate the children we used to have or want to have, but to educate the children who come to the schoolhouse door.
