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#1

“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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#2

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: attributed-no-source, inspirational, life, live, miracle, miracles

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#3

“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
― G.K. Chesterton

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#4

“Should the king in exile pretend he is happy there?

Should he not seek his own country?

His miseries are his ally; they urge him on. Let them grow, if need be. But do not forsake the secret of life; do not despise those kingly desires. We abandon the most important journey of our lives when we abandon desire. We leave our hearts by the side of the road and head off in the direction of fitting in, getting by, being productive, what have you. Whatever we might gain – money, position, the approval of others, or just absence of the discontent self – it’s not worth it.”
― John Eldredge, The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of

tags: desire, hope, misery, trouble

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#5

“It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

tags: humanity, humility, mistakes, strength, wisdom

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#6

“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: adventuring, death, time

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#7

“We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard.

[Address at Rice University, September 12 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy

tags: aspiration, challenge, kennedy, moon, space-race, space-travel, trial

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#8

“It's important to tell your story. It's important to listen.”
― Francesca Lia Block, Baby Be-Bop

tags: baby-be-bop, listen, story

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#9

“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

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#10

“Awakened at midnight
by the sound of the water jar
cracking from the ice”
― Basho

tags: awareness, haiku, life, middle-age

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#11

“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.”
― John Adams, The works of John Adams,: Second President of the United States

tags: constitution, dread, political-parties, politics

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#12

“I know words. I have the best words.”
― Donald Trump

tags: 2016, bragging, humor, politics, silly-quotes

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#13

“Don’t confuse disbelief and doubt. Doubt is healthy inquiry. Disbelief is a willful choice.”
― Chuck Missler, Learn the Bible in 24 Hours: An Overview of the Whole Bible

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#14

“The only certain barrier to truth is the presumption that you already have it.”
― Chuck Missler

tags: inspirational, knowledge

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#15

“If you undervalue what you have, you will end up overvaluing what you don't.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: contentment-quotes, gratitude-quotes, life-quotes, peace-quote, thankful-quotes, value-quotes, wisdom-quotes, wise-quotations, wise-quotes, worth-quotes

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#16

“Love is a universal Heaven, ignorance is an individual Hell.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

tags: heaven-quotes, hell-quotations, hell-quotes, ignorance-quotes, inspirational-quotes, love-quotes, love-quotes-and-sayings, matshona-dhliwayo-quotes, spiritual-quotes, spirituality-quotes

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#17

“Oh, this was the great ploy of Satan in that kingdom of his: to display such blatant evil one could almost believe one's own secret sin didn't matter.”
― Corrie Ten Boom, The Hiding Place: The Triumphant True Story of Corrie Ten Boom

tags: compromise

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#18

“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

tags: buddhism, gratitude, joy, mindfulness, zen

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#19

“So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
― J.R.R Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: decisions, gandalf, steadfastness, truths

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#20

“The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us, and carry out, in our ordinary conduct; the insignficances of daily life are the importances and the tests of eternity, because they prove what really is the spirit that possesses us.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

tags: discipleship, humility, relationships

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#21

“Our humility before God has no value, except that it prepares us to reveal the humility of Jesus to our fellow men.”
― Andrew Murray, Humility: The Journey Toward Holiness

tags: humility

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#22

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves and traitors are not victims... but accomplices”
― George Orwell

tags: attributed-no-source

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#23

“Everyone wears masks.They come in all different shapes and sizes.The only problem with trying one on is that it fits. How easily we fall into the trap that we don’t have to be who we really are.How easily we convince ourselves that we need to cover up what we were born to be.It’s a tragedy that fear keeps us from our destiny.It’s hell when the person you were created to be is covered up by some cheap imposter”
― Rachel Van Dyken, Toxic

tags: destiny, different, imposters, mask, reason, size, tragedy

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#24

“Childhood does not last forever,' said Juniper. 'Although I believe the childish soul can endure for an eternity.”
― Erin Forbes, Fire & Ice: The Kindred Woods

tags: aisling, celtic, childhood, fantasy, fiction, folklore, gifted, irish, magic

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#25

“My breath catches in my lungs as exhilaration takes over my energized limbs. I no longer feel the stones underfoot. All I know is the air whooshing past my ears and the thud of my wild heart. I am light as air.”
― K.V. Wilson, Spiritborne

tags: celtic, fantasy, fiction, legends, mythology, native, outdoors, shapeshifter, spirits, wild

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#26

“The earth is my altar, the moon my candle.”
― David Paul Kirkpatrick

tags: celtic, merlin, the-adventures-of-merlin

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#27

“I really think when historians look back on our time they will not divide us into red and blue and Republican Democrat like the things that were wrong with us were wrong with both sides in different ways, I do think they manifest in a more dangerous way on the right. But on the left there is a rot and it comes from academia and it filters down.”
― Bill Maher

tags: politics

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#28

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either -- but right through every human heart -- and through all human hearts. This line shifts. Inside us, it oscillates with the years. And even within hearts overwhelmed by evil, one small bridgehead of good is retained”
― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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#29

“The most terrible loneliness is not the kind that comes from being alone, but the kind that comes from being misunderstood. It is the loneliness of standing in a crowded room, surrounded by people who do not see you, who do not hear you, who do not know the true essence of who you are. And in that loneliness, you feel as though you are fading, disappearing into the background, until you are nothing more than a ghost, a shadow of your former self.”
― George Orwell

tags: loneliness, misattributed-to-orwell, misunderstood

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#30

“For some reason, the most vocal Christians among us never mention the Beatitudes (Matthew 5). But, often with tears in their eyes, they demand that the Ten Commandments be posted in public buildings. And of course, that's Moses, not Jesus. I haven't heard one of them demand that the Sermon on the Mount, the Beatitudes, be posted anywhere. 'Blessed are the merciful' in a courtroom? 'Blessed are the peacemakers' in the Pentagon? Give me a break!”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

tags: beatitudes, christ, christian, christianity, jesus

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