INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Hope is not pretending that troubles don't exist. It is the hope that they won't last forever. That hurts will be healed and difficulties overcome. That we will be led out of the darkness and into the sunshine.”
Unknown
HOPE
“They say a person needs just three things to be happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Tom Bodett
HOPE
“Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
HOPE
“Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I'll try again tomorrow.”
Mary Anne Radmacher
COURAGE
“Courage is contagious. Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver.”
Brené Brown
COURAGE
“If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. ”
Joanna Macy
COURAGE
“Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.”
Maya Angelou
COURAGE
“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.”
Sir Winston Churchill
COURAGE
“Our true work is not our job, that is what we do, not what we were created to do. Our true work is to look after each other, to protect each other and to be of benefit to one another.”
Bill Gates
HELPING OTHERS
“In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can. ”
William Barclay
HELPING OTHERS
“To help yourself, help others. Whatever good you do travels a circle and returns to you many times over- but remember, life isn't about what you get, it's about what you become.”
Dennis Gaskill
HELPING OTHERS
“We have enough people who tell it like it is—now we could use a few who tell it like it can be. ”
Robert Orben
OPTIMISM
“An optimist understands that life can be a bumpy road, but at least it is leading somewhere. They learn from mistakes and failures, and are not afraid to fail again.”
Harvey Mackay
OPTIMISM
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
William James
OPTIMISM
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw
WISDOM
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
WISDOM
“Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.”
Paulo Coelho
RESILIENCE
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
William Ellery Channing
RESILIENCE
“We need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person. ”
Emma Jameson
RESILIENCE
“No soul that aspires can ever fail to rise; no heart that loves can ever be abandoned. Difficulties exist only that in overcoming them we may grow strong, and they who have suffered are able to save.”
Annie Besant
RESILIENCE
“For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.”
Audrey Hepburn
TRUE BEAUTY
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are.”
Ellen DeGeneres
TRUE BEAUTY
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming “Wow! What a Ride!” ”
Hunter S. Thompson
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.”
Rachel Wolchin
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“Practice the art of adventure by breaking the chain of routine, renewing your life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.”
Wilferd A. Peterson
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly.”
O.R. Melling
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“Pursue your passion, and everything else will fall into place. This is not being romantic. This is the highest order of pragmatism.”
Gaby Giffords
