Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
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Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Security is a kind of death.
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Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you? Act for yourself. Face the truth.
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It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.
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If I have lost confidence in myself, I have the universe against me.
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I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself.
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The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.
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Love much. Earth has enough of bitter in it.
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The only joy in the world is to begin.
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Revolution is not a onetime event.
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Everything appears to change when we change.
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To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.
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A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
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The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.
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The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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Anything that has real and lasting value is always a gift from within.
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If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
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For all that has been, thanks. For all that will be, yes.
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I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.
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Trust thyself only, and another shall not betray thee.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
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It is impossible to go through life without trust: That is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.
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Insist on yourself; never imitate... Every great man is unique.
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Trust one who has gone through it.
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The real distinction is between those who adapt their purposes to reality and those who seek to mold reality in the light of their purposes.
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Heroes are often the most ordinary of men.
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and that this country shall have a new birth of freedom, and that this government, of the people, for the people, by the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
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The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than about what others are saying, and we never listen when we are eager to speak.
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Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because dawn has come.
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Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt.
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In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known -- no wonder, then, that I return the love.
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If eyes were made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being.
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It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
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The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eyes and the heart of the child.
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Petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of reality.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. W. H.
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Nature has a great simplicity and therefore a great beauty.
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The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books - a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
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The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in opposite directions.
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A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and in many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
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By the work one knows the workmen.
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[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
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But words are things; and a small drop of ink, Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
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Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
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And dreams in their development have breath, And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy; They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts, They take a weight from off our waking toils, They do divide our being.
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