Wisdom
Quotes to Uplift and Inspire
"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
Albert Einstein
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"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. "
Calvin Coolidge
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"Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of travelling."
Margaret B. Runbeck
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"Look well to this day. Yesterday is but a dream and tomorrow is only a vision. But today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look well therefore to this day."
Francis Gray
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"Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution."
Kahlil Gibran
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"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be.
Now put foundations under them."
Henry David Thoreau
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"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about."
Charles Kingsley
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"The future depends on what we do in the present."
Mahatma Gandhi
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"It is never too late to be what we might have been."
George Eliot
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"To find what you seek in the road of life, the best proverb of all is that which says:
"Leave no stone unturned.""
Edward Bulwer Lytton
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"Dance as though no-one is watching you,
Love as though you have never been hurt before,
Sing as though no-one can hear you,
Live as though Heaven is on earth."
Souza
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"The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly."
The Buddha
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"The world is like a ride in an amusement park and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are.
And the ride goes up and down and around and around and it has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun - for a while.
Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: Is this real? Or is this this just a ride?
And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and they say, hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because...this is just a ride."
Bill Hicks
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"You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way and the only way, it does not exist."
Friedrich Nietzsche
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"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth."
Marcus Aurelius
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"No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor."
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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"Our character is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be."
George Santayana
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"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
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"Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first, most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves."
Walter Anderson
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"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that frightens us.
We ask ourselves: who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?
Actually, who are you NOT to be?
You are a child of the Universe.
Your playing small doesn't serve the world.
There is nothing enligtened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are born to make manifest the glory of the Universe that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give people permission to do the same.
And as we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
Marianne Williamson
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"You gain strength, courage & confidence by every experience where you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."
Eleanor Roosevelt
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"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."Mark Twain
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"Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well. "
Voltaire
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"No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has."
Henry Ward Beecher
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