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"If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
109 people liked it

"we must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives"
— John F. Kennedy

29 people liked it

"Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: life
2,939 people liked it

"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

3,381 people liked it

"Ambition is the last refuge of the failure"
— Oscar Wilde

22 people liked it

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: life, love
288 people liked it

"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
715 people liked it

"The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary."
— VIDAL SASSOON

5 people liked it

"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
— John F. Kennedy

28 people liked it

"I dwell in possibility…"
— Emily Dickinson

tags: possibility
85 people liked it

"To live is so startling it leaves little time for anything else."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational
89 people liked it

"The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
— Emily Dickinson

tags: inspirational, wrtiting
55 people liked it

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
1,600 people liked it

"Let no man pull you low enough to hate him."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: hatred, wisdom
630 people liked it

"It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Complete Prose Works Of Ralph Waldo Emerson)

tags: essay, inspirational, lecture, nonfiction, philosophy, self-reliance, social-commentary, transcendentalism
145 people liked it

"The unfed mind devours itself."
— Gore Vidal

14 people liked it

"You cannot find peace by avoiding life."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life, peace
1,184 people liked it

"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one's life."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening, and Selected Stories)

31 people liked it

"No good deed goes unpunished"
— Gore Vidal

5 people liked it

"Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?"
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: empathy, human-nature, miracle, sympathy
27 people liked it

"...libraries should be open to all--except the censor."
— John F. Kennedy

33 people liked it

"Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: earth, heaven, heavenly
24 people liked it

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it."
— Maya Angelou

483 people liked it

"Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: education, liberty, vanity
20 people liked it

"Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: activism, service
188 people liked it

"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,132 people liked it

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
6,915 people liked it

"We choose to go to the moon not because it is easy, but because it is difficult."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: challenge, moon, space, travel, trial
22 people liked it

"The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: challanges
490 people liked it

"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
3,160 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.

676 people liked it

"I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls. "
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have A Dream)

tags: inspirational, race-relations
140 people liked it

"the time is always right to do the right thing"
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: inspirational
71 people liked it

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

222 people liked it

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: writing
573 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
434 people liked it

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: neurosis
174 people liked it

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: goals
166 people liked it

"Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: life
100 people liked it

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: women
3,044 people liked it

"The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages."
— Virginia Woolf

tags: confidence
107 people liked it

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?"
— Virginia Woolf

tags: life
182 people liked it

"Books are the mirrors of the soul."
— Virginia Woolf (Between the Acts)

tags: books, soul
101 people liked it

"Lock up your libraries if you like, but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind."
— Virginia Woolf (A Room of One's Own)

tags: freedom, women, writing
425 people liked it

"The voice of the sea speaks to the soul."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

24 people liked it

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings. It is a sad spectacle to see the weaklings bruised, exhausted, fluttering back to earth."
— Kate Chopin (The Awakening)

24 people liked it

"She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world. "
— Kate Chopin, The Awakening

5 people liked it

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: confident, direction, dream, dreams, imagine, life, live
2,379 people liked it

"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: books
152 people liked it

"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
— Henry David Thoreau

214 people liked it

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