Joanne's quotes

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"Anything the mind can conceive, and truly believe, it can achieve"
— Napoleon Hill

tags: inspirational
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"Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant."
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

77 people liked it

"When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

85 people liked it

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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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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"A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes."
— Mahatma Gandhi

363 people liked it

""If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.""
— Drew Barrymore

tags: adventure, bravery, carpe-diem, risk, risks, soul
24 people liked it

"Don't live down to expecttions. Go out there and do something remarkable."
— Wendy Wasserstein

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational, life
3 people liked it

"If you judge people, you have no time to love them."
— Mother Teresa

tags: judge, judgemental, love, time
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"People are often unreasonable and self-centered. Forgive them anyway.
If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

If you are honest, people may cheat you. Be honest anyway.

If you find happiness, people may be jealous. Be happy anyway.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

Give the world the best you have and it may never be enough. Give your best anyway.

For you see, in the end, it is between you and God. It was never between you and them anyway."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, forgiveness, god, goodness, happiness, honesty, kindness, relgion, world
2,837 people liked it

"Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it."
— Mother Teresa

tags: is---, life
2,229 people liked it

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
— Mother Teresa

102 people liked it

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

tags: happiness, inspirational
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"However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: inspirational
377 people liked it

"Your purpose in life is to find your purpose and give your whole heart and soul to it"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

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"The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

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"what we think, we become"
— Siddhārtha Gautama

tags: spiritual
32 people liked it

"The thought manifests as the word;
The word manifests as the deed;
The deed develops into habit;
And habit hardens into character;
So watch the thought and its ways with care,
And let it spring from love
Born out of concern for all beings...

As the shadow follows the body, as we think, so we become."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

7 people liked it

"Wakefulness is the way to life.
The fool sleeps
As if he were already dead,
But the Master is awake
And he lives forever.

He watches.
He is clear.

How happy he is!
For he sees that wakefulness is life.
How happy he is,
Following the path of the awakened.

With Great perseverance
He meditates, seeking
Freedom and happiness. "
— Siddhārtha Gautama

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"My Life is My Message"
— Mahatma Gandhi

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"Our life is a creation of our mind."
— Siddhārtha Gautama

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"Success is going from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: success
43 people liked it

"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."
— Abraham Lincoln

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""We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.""
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Live a good life. In the end it is not the years in a life, but the life in the years."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Nothing will divert me from my purpose."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)"
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: bible, faith, happiness
6 people liked it

"The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"I will prepare myself and my time will come."
— Abraham Lincoln

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"Get going.Move forward.Aim High.Plan a takeoff.Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane.It simply won't happen.Change your attitude and gain some altitude.Believe me, you'll love it up here.
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— Donald J. Trump

3 people liked it

"I’d rather welcome change than cling to the past."
— Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"The power of "can't": The word "can't" makes strong people weak, blinds people who can see, saddens happy people, turns brave people into cowards, robs a genius of their brilliance, causes rich people to think poorly, and limits the achievements of that great person living inside us all."
— Robert T. Kiyosaki (Rich Dad's Who Took My Money?: Why Slow Investors Lose and Fast Money Wins!)

tags: motivation
2 people liked it

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: hmmm
217 people liked it

"Well done is better than well said."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: knowledge
58 people liked it

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: inspirational
51 people liked it

"Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: benjamin, franklin
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"Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: death, life
48 people liked it

"energy and persistence conquers all things"
— Benjamin Franklin

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"You may delay, but time will not."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: quotes, time
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"A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
— Benjamin Franklin

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"We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be."
— May Sarton

tags: authenticity, life, philosophy, self
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"A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
— Albert Einstein

tags: compassion, einstein, nature, philosophy
516 people liked it

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents."
— Andrew Carnegie

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""If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes."
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— Andrew Carnegie

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"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
— Albert Einstein

tags: greatness, opposition, spirit
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