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#1

“We take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.”
― Cynthia Ozick

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#2

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
― Plato

tags: philosophy, politics

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“Feathers filled the small room. Our laughter kept the feathers in the air. I thought about birds. Could they fly if there wasn't someone, somewhere, laughing?”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

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#4

“Take it easy, but take it.”
― Woody Guthrie

tags: inspiration, philosophy

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#5

“Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves.

Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”
― Bruce Lee

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#6

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

tags: inspiration, motivation

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#7

“Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”
― Lance Armstrong Sally Jenkins, Every Second Counts

tags: cancer, failure, inspiration, inspirational, pain, quitting

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#8

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom

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#9

“Tomorrow will be better.”
“But what if it’s not?” I asked.
“Then you say it again tomorrow. Because it might be. You never know, right? At some point, tomorrow will be better.”
― Morgan Matson, Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

tags: inspiration

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#10

“All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Diary

tags: effort, inspiration

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#11

“Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager.”
― Susan Sontag

tags: action, attention, concentration, connection, eagerness, inspiration, intelligence, observation, vitality

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#12

“The individual who says it is not possible should move out of the way of those doing it.”
― Tricia Cunningham

tags: diet, fitness, health, inspiration, motivation

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#13

“It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!”
― Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

tags: action, change, gratitude, inspiration, life, motivational, purpose, seize-the-day

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#14

“Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.”
― Donald Trump

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#15

“Sometimes good things fall apart, so better things can fall together.”
― Marylin Monroe

tags: hope, inspiration, love

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#16

“Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.”
― Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth

tags: experience, failure, science

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#17

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso

tags: art, imagination, inspirational, life

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#18

“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
― Helen Keller

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#19

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”
― Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai, The Teaching of Buddha

tags: inspirational

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“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska

tags: inspirational

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#21

“If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
― Dalai Lama XIV

tags: inspirational

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#22

“If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?”
― Rumi

tags: inspirational

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#23

“I believe that we all come to this world to kill time. Therefore, we pick up some activity that we like doing and call it our profession. I call this the time pass theory.”
― Kishore Biyani, It Happened In India: The Story of Pantaloons, Big Bazaar, Central and the Great Indian Consumer

tags: inspiration, inspirational

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#24

“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

tags: action, attitude, choice, imagination, inspiration, life, pretend

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#25

“Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.”
― Thomas Jefferson

tags: inspiration, motivation

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#26

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move against me while you sleep & there are no words for that.”
― Brian Andreas, Story People

tags: inspiration, love, story-people

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#27

“It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.”
― George Herman Ruth

tags: hard-work, inspiration, teamwork

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#28

“You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”
― Sharon Salzberg

tags: inspiration, life, love, self-acceptance, self-esteem, wisdom

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#29

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

tags: ataraxy, inner-strength, inspiration, self-control, strength

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#30

“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
― Martin Luther

tags: inspiration, perseverance

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