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"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 things that won't work."
— Thomas Edison

tags: encouragement, inspiration
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"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
— Jane Goodall

tags: inspiration
6 people liked it

"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
— Mark Twain

tags: dance, heaven, hurt, inspirational, life, love, sing
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: honesty, inspirational
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"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
— Thomas A. Edison

tags: edison, failure, inspirational
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"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
— George Eliot

tags: inspirational
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"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
— Martin Luther King Jr. (I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World, Special 75th Anniversary Edition)

tags: inspirational
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"Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: happiness, inspirational
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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
699 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
413 people liked it

"If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
375 people liked it

"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
— Nathaniel Hawthorne

tags: happiness, inspirational, life
338 people liked it

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

tags: failure, inspirational, success
225 people liked it

"The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy."
— Kalu Iche Kalu

tags: hope, inspiration, inspirational, life, truth
73 people liked it

"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, ethics, justice, philosophy
951 people liked it

"Until he extends the circle of his compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: compassion, ethics, peace, vegetarianism
81 people liked it

"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace."
— Milan Kundera

tags: dogs, peace
92 people liked it

"For as long as man continues to be the ruthless destroyer of lower living beings, he will never know health or peace. For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seeds of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
— Pythagoras

tags: compassion, love, peace, vegan, vegetarian
13 people liked it

"Choose to be optimistic, it feels better."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: optimisim
43 people liked it

"Compassion is the radicalism of our time."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion
11 people liked it

"Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Just as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so do other creatures."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: life
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"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss in life is what dies within us while we are still alive.

The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

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— -Norman Cousins, Anthony Robbins, Dalai Lama

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"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: compassion, happiness
28 people liked it

"We are but visitors on this planet. We are here for ninty or one hundred years at the very most. During that period, we must try to do something good, something useful with our lives. If you contibute to other people's happiness, you will find the true goal, the true meaning of life."
— The 14th Dalai Lama

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"Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life."
— Dalai Lama XIV

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"The creatures that inhabit this earth--be they human beings or animals--are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational
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"It is our collective and individual responsibility to preserve and tend to the environment in which we all live."
— Dalai Lama XIV

tags: spirituality
2 people liked it

"...be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be."
— Henry David Thoreau

tags: expression, yourself
59 people liked it

"From a good teacher you may learn the secret of listening. You will never learn the secret of life. You will have to listen for yourself"
— Rachel Naomi Remen

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"If you look to others for fulfillment, you will never truly be fulfilled. If your happiness depends on money, you will never be happy with yourself. Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you."
— Laozi

tags: self-reliance
31 people liked it

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes."
— Mark Twain

tags: truth
2,178 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,090 people liked it

""Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not, himself, find peace."

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— Albert Schweitzer (Animals, Nature and Albert Schweitzer)

tags: animals, compassion, harmony, humans, living, nature, peace
7 people liked it

"The earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed"
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: conservation, earth, environment, greed, indulgence, man, need
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"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children"
— Native American Proverb

tags: conservation, environment, native-americans
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"We shall never understand the natural environment until we see it as a living organism. Today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see and nobody calls the cops."
— Paul Brooks

tags: environment
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"Treat the earth well: it was not given to you by your parents, it was loaned to you by your children. We do not inherit the Earth from our Ancestors, we borrow it from our Children"
— Ancient Indian Proverb

tags: environment
2 people liked it

"A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. "
— Franklin D. Roosevelt

tags: ecology, environment, trees
4 people liked it

"To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: conservation, environment
14 people liked it

"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
— Dalai Lama XIV

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"You must live every day as if it counts, which means to love all of it. Never let a single one go by without noting the color of the sky, the song of the bird, the face of the one you love best. And don't let yourself get talked out of the things you really care about, don't put off what you want to be."
— C.A. Belmond (A Rather Lovely Inheritance)

8 people liked it

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: ignorance
354 people liked it

"Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous."
— Albert Einstein (The World As I See It)

tags: coincidence, god, religion
1,192 people liked it

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: art, life
764 people liked it

"Everyone should be able to do one card trick, tell two jokes, and recite three poems, in case they are ever trapped in an elevator."
— Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid)

tags: funny
755 people liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

770 people liked it

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. "
— Leo Tolstoy

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"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
— Ernest Hemingway

tags: drinking
670 people liked it

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