Quotes - Roberta Pearson (Cumberland Center, ME) Showing 1-30 of 98

#1

“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them.”
― John Ruskin

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#2

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..”
― John Milton, Paradise Lost

tags: inspirational, religion

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#3

“When you see good or bad in your children, you're seeing what you instilled in them after they cleared the womb.”
― John Steinbeck

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#4

“If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”
― Confucius

tags: inspirational, mistake

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#5

“When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time.”
― Maya Angelou

tags: oprah-s-thank-you-game, people

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#6

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
― Lyndon B. Johnson

tags: inspirational, moving-on

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#7

“You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.”
― Nicholas Sparks, The Rescue

tags: friends, judgement

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#8

“Someday is now.”
― Gaddy Bergmann

tags: inspirational

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#9

“The ability to observe without evaluating is the highest form of intelligence.”
― J. Krishnamurti

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#10

“First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.”
― Nicholas Klein

tags: conflict, fighting, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, trial

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#11

“Do your own thing on your own terms and get what you came here for”
― Oliver James

tags: be-yourself, inspirational, life, self-actualization, self-expression

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#12

“We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.”
― Jimmy Carter

tags: jesus-christ, judgement, life, preparation, religion

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#13

“why are trying so hard to fit in, when you're born to stand out”
― Oliver James

tags: individuality, inspirational, life

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#14

“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
― Erma Bombeck

tags: afterlife, god, heaven, judgement, talent

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#15

“I've had it with being nice, understanding, fair and hopeful. I feel like being negative all day. The chip on my shoulder could sink the QE2. I've got an attitude problem and nobody better get in my way...I'm in a bad mood and the whole stupid little world is gonna pay!”
― John Waters, Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters

tags: attitude, inspirational, negative

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#16

“I learn from my own daughter that you don’t have to be awake to cry.”
― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper

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#17

“I was set free, because my greatest fear had already been realized, and I was still alive, and I still had a daughter whom I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”
― J.K. Rowling, Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination

tags: harvard-commencement-speech

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#18

“If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.”
― Mark Twain

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#19

“Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to.”
― Mark Twain

tags: blush, wordplay

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#20

“If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.”
― Woodrow Wilson

tags: animals, dogs

669 likes

#21

“The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs.”
― Charles de Gaulle

tags: dogs, man

441 likes

#22

“Animals don't hate, and we're supposed to be better than them.”
― Elvis Presley

tags: animals, hate

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#23

“Just be yourself and you'll be fine”
― Natsuki Takaya, Fruits Basket, Vol. 1

tags: anime

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#24

“There's nothing more embarrassing than to have earned the disfavor of a perceptive animal.”
― Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys

tags: life

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#25

“I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in it's gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.”
― Henry David Thoreau

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#26

“Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: brotherhood-of-man, hatred, understanding

1377 likes

#27

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#28

“All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.”
― John Steinbeck

tags: conflict, politics, war

2083 likes

#29

“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

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#30

“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens to have love in her heart. I guess a loving woman is indestructible.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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