INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
Theodor Seuss Geisel
LITERACY
“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. ”
Mortimer J. Adler
LITERACY
“Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom.”
Viktor Frankl
MINDFULNESS
““What day is it?” asked Pooh. “It’s today,” squeaked Piglet. “My favorite day,” said Pooh.”
Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
MINDFULNESS
“Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it.”
Eckhart Tolle
MINDFULNESS
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on when it changes (which it will); being with the unpleasant without fearing it will always be this way (which it won’t).”
James Baraz
MINDFULNESS
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”
Tom Bodett
HOPE
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.”
Ovid
HOPE
“The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.”
Barack Obama
HOPE
“We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.
HOPE
“Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there's no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic.”
Laini Taylor
HOPE
“Most people are like you and me, or the people across the street or around the world from you and me. Just like you and me, their hearts tell them that somewhere, somehow, they can make a positive difference in the world. ”
William Baker
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“Aim to make a difference in someone’s life every single day, including your own.”
Doe Zantamata
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“Never underestimate the valuable and important difference you make in every life you touch for the impact you make today has a powerful rippling effect on every tomorrow.”
Leon Brown
MAKING A DIFFERENCE
“The diversity in the human family should be the cause of love and harmony, as it is in music where many different notes blend together in the making of a perfect chord.”
Abdu’l- Bahá
INCLUSION
“Nurturing an inclusive culture begins in the family. Home is the first place to foster openness and a culture of inclusion.”
Alain Dehaze
INCLUSION
“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”
Robert Fulghum
INCLUSION
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous? Actually who are you not to be? ”
Marianne Williamson
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement. ”
Golda Meir
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“When I was a child my mother said to me, ‘If you become a soldier, you’ll be a general. If you become a monk, you’ll be the pope.’ Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.”
Pablo Picasso
BELIEVE IN YOURSELF
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.”
Amelia Earhart
DRIVE
“Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do.”
Pope John XXIII
DRIVE
“Nothing really worth having is easy to get. The hard-fought battles, the goals won with sacrifice, are the ones that matter.”
Aisha Tyler
DRIVE
“There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.”
Ronald Reagan
WONDER
“When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
FITNESS
“Movement is a medicine for creating change in a person's physical, emotional, and mental states.”
Carol Welch-Baril
FITNESS
“A bear, however hard he tries, grows tubby without exercise.”
Winnie-the-Pooh (A. A. Milne)
FITNESS
“True enjoyment comes from activity of the mind and exercise of the body; the two are ever united.”
Wilhelm von Humboldt
