Patrick's quotes

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"We are afraid of losing what we have, whether it's our life or our possessions and property. But this fear evaporates when we understand that our life stories and the history of the world were written by the same hand."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: inspirational
81 people liked it

"Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

87 people liked it

"When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive."
— Paulo Coelho (The Zahir)

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"A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
— Paulo Coelho

76 people liked it

"Ester asked why people are sad.
"That’s simple," says the old man. "They are the prisoners of their personal history. Everyone believes that the main aim in life is to follow a plan. They never ask if that plan is theirs or if it was created by another person. They accumulate experiences, memories, things, other people's ideas, and it is more than they can possibly cope with. And that is why they forget their dreams."
— Paulo Coelho (The Zahir)

tags: dreams, future, happiness, life, plans, sadness
44 people liked it

"Anyone who loves in the expectation of being loved in return is wasting their time."
— Paulo Coelho (The Devil and Miss Prym: A Novel of Temptation)

tags: love
37 people liked it

"It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist)

tags: inspirational
732 people liked it

"So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you."
— Paulo Coelho

tags: love
266 people liked it

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure."
— Paulo Coelho

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"Everyone seems to have a clear idea of how other people should lead their lives, but none about his or her own."
— Paulo Coelho (The Alchemist - Gift Edition)

219 people liked it

"Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?"
— Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes: A Novel)

191 people liked it

"In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act."
— George Orwell

tags: truth
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"Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. "
— George Orwell

tags: language, politics
227 people liked it

"He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past."
— George Orwell (1984)

tags: inspirational
324 people liked it

"Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square hole. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do."
— Apple Computer Inc.

tags: advertising, apple, change, commercial, computers, different, misfits, nonconformity, quo, rebels, status, think
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"A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: friend, friendship, knowledge, love
6,249 people liked it

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
— Mark Twain

tags: individuality, majority, minority, pause, reflect, wisdom
6,064 people liked it

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

tags: activism, apathy, hate, indifference, love, opposite, philosophy
7,022 people liked it

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: strength
5,207 people liked it

"I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
— Maya Angelou

tags: angelou, maya
4,861 people liked it

"Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: dreams
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"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: courage, inspirational
193 people liked it

"A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: brave, inspirational
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"Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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"That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

tags: inspirational
57 people liked it

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

tags: life, love
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"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

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

tags: inspirational
1,572 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life
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"You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: body, soul
3,361 people liked it

"The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."
— Terry Pratchett (Diggers)

tags: humor, open-mind, thinking
2,918 people liked it

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
— Marianne Williamson (A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of a Course in Miracles)

tags: fear, inspirational
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"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go..."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: inspirational
2,871 people liked it

"Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them."
— William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)

tags: greatness
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"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, stories, writing
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, religion, sun
2,524 people liked it

"A day without laughter is a day wasted."
— Charlie Chaplin

tags: philosophy
2,276 people liked it

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

tags: chocolate, friendship
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"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you...I could walk through my garden forever."
— Alfred Lord Tennyson

tags: friendship, love
1,754 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
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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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"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

tags: culture, reading
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"I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death."
— Robert Fulghum (All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten)

tags: hope, imagination, inspirational
1,098 people liked it

"(The Christian) does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christianity, god, religion
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"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence
1,236 people liked it

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

tags: dreams, future, inspirational
256 people liked it

"I am what I am today because of the choices I made yesterday"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart"
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: friends
211 people liked it