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"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
— Maya Angelou

tags: inspirational, writing
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"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares."
— Henri J.M. Nouwen (The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey)

tags: empathy, friends, friendship, inspirational
1,199 people liked it

"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
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"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational, politics, presidential
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"There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.....the sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and Hope."
— Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)

tags: hope, inspirational, wisdom
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"A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: art, inspirational
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"When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: chinese, crisis, danger, inspirational, opportunity
406 people liked it

"Sometimes our flame goes out, but is
blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being."
— Albert Schweitzer

tags: inspirational, life, spiritual, uplifting
223 people liked it

"I sought to hear the voice of God and climbed the topmost steeple, but God declared: "Go down again - I dwell among the people."
— John Henry Newman

tags: god, inspirational, love
210 people liked it

"He that can have patience can have what he will."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: determination, inspirational, patience
112 people liked it

"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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"...we accept the love we think we deserve."
— Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower)

tags: inspirational, love
2,343 people liked it

"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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"Someday is now."
— Gaddy Bergmann

tags: inspirational
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"Grace is the face that love wears when it meets imperfection."
— Joseph R. Cooke

tags: inspirational
29 people liked it

"I'd like you to know that I have forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and persecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again."
— Jan Karon (Home to Holly Springs: The First of the Father Tim Novels)

tags: inspirational
6 people liked it

"Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it 'The Present'."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
4,861 people liked it

"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon

tags: beatles, connection, dreamers, dreaming, dreams, hope, inspirational, peace
1,760 people liked it

"Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for"
— Oliver James

tags: inspirational, life
71 people liked it

"It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
— Confucius

tags: inspirational
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"Everything you can imagine is real."
— Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life
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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
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"Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return."
— Leonardo da Vinci

tags: flight, flying, inspirational
103 people liked it

"Don't wake up one day wishing you'd tried."
— Edwin McCain

tags: inspirational
85 people liked it

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational
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"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: inspirational
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"Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love."
— Mother Teresa

tags: actions, can-do, great-love, great-things, inspirational, love, small-things
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"Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be."
— Shel Silverstein

tags: inspirational
2,400 people liked it

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
— Harvey S. Firestone

tags: inspirational, life
69 people liked it

"May you live every day of your life."
— Jonathan Swift

tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."
— Margaret Mead

tags: activism, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
2,065 people liked it

"Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are."
— John Wooden

tags: inspirational
73 people liked it

"The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position."
— Leo Buscaglia

tags: inspirational
24 people liked it

"To touch the soul of another human being is to walk on holy ground."
— Stephen Covey

tags: inspirational
23 people liked it

"The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore."
— Vincent Van Gogh

tags: inspirational
26 people liked it

"The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings."
— J.M. Barrie

tags: inspirational, profoud
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"None but ourselves can free our minds."
— Bob Marley

tags: bob, inspirational, marley, music, reggae
332 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
129 people liked it

"To be in your children's memories tomorrow,
You have to be in their lives today."
— Barbara Johnson

tags: inspirational
63 people liked it

"we are product of our past but we dont have to be prisoners of it."
— Rick Warren (The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?)

tags: inspirational
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"With money you can but a house, but not a home. "
— Chinese Proverb

tags: cute, inspirational, sweet, true
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"Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
— Francis Of Assisi

tags: inspirational
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"A woman's heart should be so hidden in God that a man has to seek Him just to find her."
— Max Lucado

tags: inspirational, love
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"Tell me a fact and I’ll learn. Tell me a truth and I’ll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever."
— Indian Proverb

tags: inspirational
33 people liked it

"There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession"
— Daniel Webster

tags: inspirational
9 people liked it

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

tags: faith, inspirational
1,370 people liked it

"Fault always lies in the same place: with him weak enough to lay blame."
— Stephen King

tags: inspirational, philosophy
57 people liked it

"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
— Various (The New Oxford Annotated Bible, New Revised Standard Version with the Apocrypha)

tags: bible, god, inspirational, truth
34 people liked it

""even angels cry""
— jars of clay (band)

tags: inspirational, music
18 people liked it

"Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be defeated."
— G.K. Chesterton

tags: books, inspirational
2,504 people liked it

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