INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Most of us, swimming against the tides of trouble the world knows nothing about, need only a bit of praise or encouragement—and we will make the goal.”
Jerome P. Fleishman
ENCOURAGEMENT
“I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing that I wanted to do.”
Georgia O'Keeffe
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.”
Bob Goff
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“And then there is the most dangerous risk of all...the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.”
Randy Komisar
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“No one can really predict to what heights you might soar. Even you will not know until you spread your wings.”
Gil Atkinson
SPREAD YOUR WINGS
“A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.”
William Hazlitt
SMILE
“The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.”
John Ruskin
HARD WORK
“It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.”
Mae Jemison
LIVE LIFE
“The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
LIVE LIFE
“Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home... it's your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Chuck Palahniuk
JOY
“You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don't put tomato in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
WISDOM
“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
Marcel Proust
WISDOM
“That’s what kindness is. It’s not doing something for someone else because they can’t, but because you can.”
Andrew Iskander
KINDNESS
“Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
Princess Diana
KINDNESS
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
Steve Maraboli
RESILIENCE
“When I dare to be powerful to use my strength in the service of my vision then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
Audre Lorde
RESILIENCE
“Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an ‘is,’ it is a ‘becoming.’”
Haile Selassie
PEACE
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
PEACE
“Optimism is a strategy for making a better future. Because unless you believe that the future can be better, you are unlikely to step up and take responsibility for making it so.”
Noam Chomsky
OPTIMISM
“It’s not that optimism solves all of life’s problems; it is just that it can sometimes make the difference between coping and collapsing. ”
Lucy MacDonald
OPTIMISM
“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the horizon of the spirit.”
Helen Keller