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"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
— Norman Vincent Peale

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"Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire."
— Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

tags: faith, love, peace
25 people liked it

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."
— Duke Ellington (Music Is My Mistress)

tags: inspirational
4 people liked it

"All this will not be finished in the first hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even, perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let use begin."
— John F. Kennedy (Profiles in Courage)

tags: courage, foresight, inspirational
2 people liked it

"It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt."
— Abraham Lincoln

tags: wisdom
9,073 people liked it

"Humans think they are smarter than dolphins because we build cars and buildings and start wars etc...and all that dolphins do is swim in the water, eat fish and play around. Dolphins believe that they are smarter for exactly the same reasons."
— Douglas Adams

tags: humour
1,980 people liked it

"All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by frost."
— J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)

tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
6,096 people liked it

"The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
— John F. Kennedy

tags: inspirational, politics
122 people liked it

"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday."
— John Wayne

29 people liked it

"Use what talents you possess;
the woods would be very silent
if no birds sang there
except those that sang best."
— Henry Van Dyke

17 people liked it

"Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:

- I shall not fear anyone on Earth.
- I shall fear only God.
- I shall not bear ill will toward anyone.
- I shall not submit to injustice from anyone.
- I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
— Mahatma Gandhi

tags: bravery, god, goodness, humanity, justice, kindness, peace, suffering
97 people liked it

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
— Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
9,220 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
11,763 people liked it

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

tags: animals, books, dogs, friends, humor
6,534 people liked it

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."
— Maya Angelou

tags: life
10,973 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
17,781 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,205 people liked it

"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
1,232 people liked it

"Fate leads the willing and drags along the reluctant."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

10 people liked it

"You act like mortals in all that you fear, and like immortals in all that you desire"
— Seneca "On the Shortness of Life"

10 people liked it

"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: inspirational
45 people liked it

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

tags: fear, inspirational, overcoming
33 people liked it

"In all debates, let truth be thy aim, not victory, or an unjust interest."
— William Penn

tags: inspirational, justice, truth
4 people liked it

"If you find that thing you love, it doesn't necessarily matter whether you do it well or not-you just need to do it."
— Stanley Tucci

1 person liked it

"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
— Theodore Roosevelt

tags: evil, justice, society
11 people liked it

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
— Aristotle

tags: inequality
16 people liked it

"If the Lord made anything better than a woman he kept it for himself."
— Jerry Lee Lewis

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"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant."
— Horace (65-8 BC) Roman Poet

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"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
— Albert Einstein

tags: science
1,511 people liked it

"As government expands, liberty contracts."
— Ronald Reagan

tags: government, politics
48 people liked it

"Those who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?

on the Ten Commandments ruling"
— Sandra Day O'Conner

tags: church, religion, state, theocracy
8 people liked it

"Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are."
— Benjamin Franklin

tags: government, justice, laws, politics
31 people liked it

"Self-respect is the root of discipline: The sense of dignity grows
with the ability to say no to oneself.
"
— Abraham Joshua Heschel 1907-1972

tags: dignity, discipline, inspirational, self-respect
3 people liked it

"So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable."
— Christopher Reeve

10 people liked it

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
— Albert Camus

tags: seasons, strength, trial, triumph
614 people liked it

"Everyone who has ever taken a shower has had an idea. It's the
person who gets out of the shower, dries off, and does something
about it that makes a difference.
"
— Nolan Bushnell

tags: action, courage, inspirational, taking
3 people liked it

"The potential of the average person is like a huge ocean unsailed, a
new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be
released and channeled toward some great good.
"
— Brian Tracy

tags: courage, inspiration, potential
3 people liked it

"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
— Winston S. Churchill

tags: giving
113 people liked it

"I believe that love--not imitation--is the sincerest form of flattery. Your imitator thinks that you can be duplicated; your lover knows you can't."
— Marilyn Vos Savant

tags: esteem, flattery, love, self
19 people liked it

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