inspirational Quotes
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In life, satisfaction is experienced when activities are brought to a state of completion. Loss of energy and loss of control are functions of incompletion. The result of completing things releases one's ability to create. Prioritize any items that need to be completed, set a completion date, then do it.
William Arthur Ward
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Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
Judy Blume
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Nothing limits achievement like small thinking; nothing expands possibilities like unleashed imagination.
William Arthur Ward
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Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
Nigel Lythgoe
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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.
T. D. Jakes
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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin
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You really do learn by example... Especially women, sometimes we think somebody's going to rescue us, or somebody's going to teach us how to do it, when in fact we have to understand that the biggest resource we have is inside of ourselves. I know that I can count on me to take care of me. That's a very important thing to know.
Marlo Thomas
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The attainment of an ideal is often the beginning of a disillusion.
Stanley Baldwin
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It is difficult to understand the universe if you only study one planet
Miyamoto Musashi
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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?
William Whiting Borden
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Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Norman Cousins
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There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man's lack of faith in his true Self.
William James
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True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.
Erich Segal
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Many of us squander precious natural resources -time, creative energy, emotion- comparing our talents to those of others. Today ask Spirit to call forth your authentic gifts, so that you might know them, acknowledge them, and own them.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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Never put an age limit on your dreams.
Dara Torres
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O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast.
William Shakespeare
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Babies control and bring up their families as much as they are controlled by them; in fact ... the family brings up baby by being brought up by him.
Erik Erikson
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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.
Ernest Hemingway
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A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.
William James
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Adorn yourself with truth, try to speak truth in all things; and do not support a lie, no matter who asks you. If you speak the truth and someone gets mad at you, don't be upset, but take comfort in the words of the Lord: Blessed are those who are persecuted for the sake of truth, for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven (Matt. 5:10).
Gennadius of Constantinople
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Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Nothing is ever too expensive if it furthers the repertoire and artistic standards of a dance company.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
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If music be the food of love, play on.
William Shakespeare