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"Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops at all."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: feathers, hope, inspirational, souls
695 people liked it

"All the darkness in the world can't extinguish the light from a single candle."
— Francis Of Assisi (The Little Flowers of St. Francis of Assisi)

tags: inspirational
566 people liked it

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

660 people liked it

"It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
447 people liked it

"We don't need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever."
— Philip Pullman

tags: books, companionship, inspirational, religious
369 people liked it

"Never, never be afraid to do what's right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society's punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational, right
409 people liked it

"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational, language, wisdom
372 people liked it

"True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of one's companion."
— Gordon B. Hinckley (Stand a Little Taller: Counsel and Inspiration for Each Day of the Year)

tags: inspirational
314 people liked it

"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
406 people liked it

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.""
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: inspirational, life, work
221 people liked it

"Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!"
— Audrey Hepburn

tags: inspirational
521 people liked it

"I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship."
— Louisa May Alcott (Little Women)

tags: inspirational, ship, storms
221 people liked it

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
187 people liked it

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational
212 people liked it

"... in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Return of the King)

tags: hope, inspirational
183 people liked it

"Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational
243 people liked it

"There are some people, you know, who are too important to ever be forgotten."
— Clive Barker (Abarat)

tags: friendship, inspirational
360 people liked it

"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake. "
— Victor Hugo

tags: courage, inspirational
179 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
223 people liked it

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: god, heart, humanity, inspirational, prayer, religion, souls, weakness
329 people liked it

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
— Helen Keller

tags: inspirational
140 people liked it

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: failure, inspirational, success
224 people liked it

"I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time- waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God- it changes me."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: inspirational, prayer
233 people liked it

"Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
135 people liked it

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman

tags: god, inspirational, love
210 people liked it

"Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever."
— Lance Armstrong (Every Second Counts)

tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting
228 people liked it

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational
92 people liked it

"'What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...'"
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (The Little Prince)

tags: inspirational
90 people liked it

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
— Walter Bagehot

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on."
— Henry Rollins

tags: inspirational, life
89 people liked it

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love
129 people liked it

"I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance"
— e.e. cummings

tags: inspirational
89 people liked it

"All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of its handlers. Some parents smudge, others crack, a few shatter childhoods completely into jagged little pieces, beyond repair."
— Mitch Albom (The Five People You Meet in Heaven)

tags: family, inspirational, life, parents
114 people liked it

"Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
— Leo Tolstoy

tags: grief, inspirational
99 people liked it

"Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: inspirational, politics, religion
121 people liked it

"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
— Samuel Beckett (Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts)

tags: inspirational, tears
51 people liked it

"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
— Francis Of Assisi

tags: inspirational
56 people liked it

"I sustain myself with the love of family."
— Maya Angelou

tags: family, inspirational
58 people liked it

"Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher."
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: inspirational
62 people liked it

"You have to, take a deep breath. and allow the music to flow through you. Revel in it, allow yourself to awe. When you play allow the music to break your heart with its beauty."
— Kelly White

tags: inspirational, love, music
55 people liked it

"Believe there is a great power silently working all things
for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest.

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— Beatrix Potter

tags: inspirational
53 people liked it

"Champions have the courage to keep turning the pages because they know a better chapter lies ahead."
— Paula White

tags: inspirational
53 people liked it

"I live my life in widening circles That reach out across the world."
— Rainer Maria Rilke (Rilke's Book of Hours: Love Poems to God)

tags: inspirational, life
40 people liked it

"we are product of our past but we dont have to be prisoners of it."
— Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?)

tags: inspirational
40 people liked it

"Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly."
— Mother Teresa

tags: humor, inspirational
91 people liked it

"you cannot find happiness, outside the plan of happiness!"
— John Bytheway

tags: inspirational
32 people liked it

"I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. "
— Oprah Winfrey

tags: individuality, inspirational, success
34 people liked it

"Gratitude is a sign of maturity...Where there is appreciation: there is also courtesy and concern for the rights and property of others."
— Gordon B. Hinckley

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

"We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone."
— Martin Luther

tags: christianity, faith, inspirational, religion
48 people liked it

"Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."
— Martin Luther

tags: hope, inspirational
25 people liked it

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