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"(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
1,096 people liked it

"God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: faith, god, wisdom
162 people liked it

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."
— Joni Eareckson Tada (God I Love, The)

tags: faith, god, inspirational, love
131 people liked it

"stop asking God to bless what youre doing. find out what God's doing. its already blessed."
— Bond

tags: god, life
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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
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"I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much."
— Mother Teresa

tags: catholicism, christianity, god, inspirational, religion
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"We may be surprised at the people we find in heaven. God has a soft spot for sinners. His standards are quite low."
— Desmond Tutu

tags: god, heaven
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"There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'"
— C.S. Lewis

tags: christian, god, spirituality
19 people liked it

"What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
— Eleanor Powell

tags: god
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"Prayerlessness is an insult to God. Every prayerless day is a statement by a helpless individual, 'I do not need God today.'"
— Ben Jennings

tags: day, god, prayer, today
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"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent
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"When all is said and done, more is said than done."
— Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation
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"Happiness is a place between too little and too much."
— Finnish Proverb

tags: happiness
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"Success is getting what you want, happiness is wanting what you get"
— W.P. Kinsella

tags: happiness, success
185 people liked it

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: truth
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"There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics."
— Benjamin Disraeli

tags: truth
888 people liked it

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

tags: truth
2,173 people liked it

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

tags: genius, humor, insanity
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"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: history, humor, writing
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"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
— Charles Lamb

tags: humor, work
653 people liked it

"My tastes are simple: I am easily satisfied with the best."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: humor, taste
704 people liked it

"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
— Woody Allen

tags: death, fear, humor, life
2,686 people liked it

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, procrastination
5,532 people liked it

"He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
— C.S. Lewis (The Weight of Glory)

tags: god
4 people liked it

"I dream my painting and I paint my dream."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: art, dreams, inspiration
202 people liked it

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: inspiration
137 people liked it

"Love is the absence of judgement"
— Dahli Llama

tags: inspiration
128 people liked it

"I ask not for any crown
But that which all may win;
Nor try to conquer any world
Except the one within."
— Louisa May Alcott

tags: inspiration, wisdom
120 people liked it

"The greatest personal limitation is to be found not in the things you want to do and can't, but in the things you've never considered doing."
— Richard Bandler

tags: inspiration
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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
79 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

"I stay cool, and dig all jive,
That's the way I stay alive.
My motto,
as I live and learn,
is
Dig and be dug
In return."
— Langston Hughes

tags: inspiration
19 people liked it

"Don't just do something.
Stand there."
— Buddha Paraphrased

tags: breathe, humor, inspiration
9 people liked it

""Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.""
— E. Joseph Cossman

tags: goals, inspiration
27 people liked it

"Take it easy, but take it."
— Woody Guthrie

tags: inspiration, philosophy
21 people liked it

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: be-yourself, confidence, individuality, those-who-matter
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"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: cry, crying, experience, happiness, joy, life, optimism, sadness, smile, smiling
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"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams."
— Dr. Seuss

tags: dreams, love, reality, sleep
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"I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
— Oscar Wilde

tags: intelligence, self-deprecation
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"Thus, the task is not so much to see what no one yet has seen, but to think what nobody yet has thought about that which everybody sees."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

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"No rose without a thorn but many a thorn without a rose."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people. "
— Arthur Schopenhauer

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"To the world you might just be one person, to one person you might be the world.'"
— Anonymous

tags: love
3 people liked it

"The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. "
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: life
25 people liked it

"Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive."
— Elbert Hubbard

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"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
— Elbert Hubbard

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"The love we give away is the only love we keep."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: love
35 people liked it

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped."
— Elbert Hubbard

tags: genius, stupidity
22 people liked it

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