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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
— Aristotle

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"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: courage
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"If you are going through hell, keep going."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: hell, perseverance
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"Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone"
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art
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"“I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.""
— Pablo Picasso

tags: inspirational
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"Action is the foundational key to all success.
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— Pablo Picasso

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"A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge."
— Thomas Carlyle

tags: knowledge, learning
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"Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct."
— Thomas Carlyle

tags: conviction
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"When men speak ill of thee, live so that nobody will believe them."
— Plato

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"Ignorance, the root and stem of every evil."
— Plato

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"Death is not the worst that can happen to men."
— Plato

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"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage."
— Laozi

tags: courage, deeply-loved, love, strength
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"A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life."
— Charles Darwin

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"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."
— Robert Frost

tags: life
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"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
— Robert Frost

tags: love
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"Life is a long lesson in humility."
— James M. Barrie

tags: humility, insightful, life
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"Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves."
— Anonymous (Holy Bible: The King James Bible)

tags: bible, love
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"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off."
— Gloria Steinem

tags: anger, freedom, truth
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"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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"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference."
— Elie Wiesel

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
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"It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: friendship, lack-of-friendship, lack-of-love, love, marriage, unhappy-marriage
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"Even more, I had never meant to love him. One thing I truly knew - knew it in the pit of my stomach, in the center of my bones, knew it from the crown of my head to the soles of my feet, knew it deep in my empty chest - was how love gave someone the power to break you.
I'd been broken beyond repair."
— Stephenie Meyer (New Moon)

tags: heart-break, love
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"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: action, change, inspirational, philosophy, wish
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"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain."
— Maya Angelou

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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"Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor, insanity, life
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"So many books, so little time."
— Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor
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"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough"
— Mae West

tags: humor, life
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"A day without sunshine is like, you know, night."
— Steve Martin

tags: humor, obvious
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"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand."
— Charles M. Schulz

tags: humor, mankind, people
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"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
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"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
— Mark Twain

tags: books, health, humor, misprints
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"Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."
— William Goldman (The Princess Bride)

tags: humor, movies
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"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor
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"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line."
— Oscar Levant

tags: genius, humor, insanity
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"Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."
— Albert Camus

tags: friends, friendship
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"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: friends
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"There is nothing better than a friend, unless it is a friend with chocolate."
— Charles Dickens

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart, and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words."
— Donna Roberts

tags: friendship
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"You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend."
— Paul Sweeney

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"Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

tags: faith, inspirational
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"And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)"
— Various (Holy Bible: King James Version)

tags: faith, god, hope, love
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"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
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"Do not think that love in order to be genuine has to be extraordinary. What we need is to love without getting tired. Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
— Mother Teresa

tags: belief, faith
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"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."
— Max Lucado (He Still Moves Stones)

tags: faith
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"You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold. "
— Max Lucado (Cure for the Common Life)

tags: inspiration, self-image
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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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"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
— Robert Louis Stevenson

tags: day, inspirational, judge, plant, reap, seed, seeds, sow
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