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100 Inspirational Quotes 5

The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people. ~Randy Pausch

The chinese use two brush strokes to write the word crisis. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity. ~John F. Kennedy

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. ~Jodi Picoult

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. ~Maya Angelou

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. ~Kurt Cobain

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position. ~Leo Buscaglia

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for. ~George Washington Burnap

The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go gods love for us does not. ~C.S. Lewis

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself. ~Michel de Montaigne

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly. ~Friedrich Nietzsche

The important thing to you is not how many years in your life, but how much life in your years! ~Edward J. Stieglitz

The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.. ~John Milton

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or touched, they are felt with the heart. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. ~Alice Walker

The most important decision you make is to be in a good mood. ~Voltaire

The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask. There can't be any large-scale revolution until theres a personal revolution, on an individual level. Its got to happen inside first. ~Jim Morrison

The old man replied simply, "the one you feed. ~Wendy Mass

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes awww! ~Jack Kerouac

The only person who can pull me down is myself, and im not going to let myself pull me down anymore. ~C. JoyBell C.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism. It is not a creed. Death is certain, replacing both the siren-song of paradise and the dread of hell. Life on this earth, with all its mystery and beauty and pain, is then to be lived far more intensely: we stumble and get up, we are sad, confident, insecure, feel loneliness and joy and love. There is nothing more; but i want nothing more. ~Ayaan Hirsi Ali

The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. ~C. JoyBell C.

The opposite of love is not hate, its indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, its indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, its indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, its indifference. ~Elie Wiesel

The past has no power over the present moment. ~Eckhart Tolle

The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living. ~Roy T. Bennett

The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.what kind of person do you want to walk down the street with ~C. JoyBell C.

The place to improve the world is first in ones own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there. ~Robert M. Pirsig

The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely. ~Louisa May Alcott


The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. ~Eleanor Roosevelt

The question is not what you look at, but what you see. ~Henry David Thoreau

The real heroes anyway arent the people doing things; the real heroes are the people noticing things, paying attention. ~John Green

The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings. ~J.M. Barrie

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 starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat. ~Napoleon Hill

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~Thomas Szasz

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. ~Samuel Beckett

The thing about growing up with fred and george," said ginny thoughtfully, "is that you sort of start thinking anythings possible if youve got enough nerve. ~J.K. Rowling

The things you do for yourself are gone when you are gone, but the things you do for others remain as your legacy. ~Kalu Ndukwe Kalu

The time is always right to do the right thing ~Martin Luther King Jr.

The truth is furiously knocking. ~Lucille Clifton

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ~Steve Maraboli

The unhappiest people in this world, are those who care the most about what other people think. ~C. JoyBell C.

The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. Thats the only lasting thing you can create. ~Chuck Palahniuk

The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater. ~J.R.R. Tolkien

The worst part of success is trying to find someone who is happy for you. ~Bette Midler

Then i don't know what is. ~Chad Sugg

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. ~J.K. Rowling

There are times when solitude is better than society, and silence is wiser than speech. We should be better christians if we were more alone, waiting upon god, and gathering through meditation on his word spiritual strength for labour in his service. We ought to muse upon the things of god, because we thus get the real nutriment out of them. Why is it that some christians, although they hear many sermons, make but slow advances in the divine life ~Charles Haddon Spurgeon

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can't move, and the kind that just gives you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies. ~Robert Frost

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work. ~Anaïs Nin

There is a way to be good again... ~Khaled Hosseini

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it. ~J.K. Rowling

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. ~Maya Angelou

There is nothing more dreadful than the habit of doubt. Doubt separates people. It is a poison that disintegrates friendships and breaks up pleasant relations. It is a thorn that irritates and hurts; it is a sword that kills. ~Gautama Buddha

There is nothing more rare, nor more beautiful, than a woman being unapologetically herself; comfortable in her perfect imperfection. To me, that is the true essence of beauty. ~Steve Maraboli

There is some kind of a sweet innocence in being human- in not having to be just happy or just sad- in the nature of being able to be both broken and whole, at the same time. ~C. JoyBell C.

There is the great lesson of beauty and the beast, that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. ~G.K. Chesterton

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors. ~Adrienne Rich

There was another life that i might have had, but i am having this one. ~Kazuo Ishiguro

Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say. ~Kahlil Gibran

Theres more to life than dating the boy on the football team. ~Taylor Swift

Theres so much to be grateful for, words are poor things. ~Marilynne Robinson

Think, believe, dream, and dare. ~Walt Disney Company

This life is what you make it. No matter what, youre going to mess up sometimes, its a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how youre going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - theyll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - theyre your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, theyll come and go too. And baby, i hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, youll never find your soulmate. Youll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesnt mean youre gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie ~Marilyn Monroe

This life is yours. Take the power to choose what you want to do and do it well. Take the power to love what you want in life and love it honestly. Take the power to walk in the forest and be a part of nature. Take the power to control your own life. No one else can do it for you. Take the power to make your life happy. ~Susan Polis Schutz

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~J.M. Barrie

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it. ~Abraham Lincoln

Though the roads been rocky it sure feels good to me. ~Bob Marley

Time. Happiness. Inner peace. Integrity. Love. Character. Manners. Health. Respect. Morals. Trust. Patience. Class. Common sense. Dignity. ~Roy T. Bennett

To be rejected by someone doesnt mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesnt mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only one person has rejected you at the moment, and it only hurt so much because to you, that persons opinion symbolized the opinion of the whole world, of god. ~Jocelyn Soriano

To love and lose, the next best. ~William Makepeace Thackeray

To me, fearless is not the absense of fear. Its not being completely unafraid. To me, fearless is having fears. Fearless is having doubts. Lots of them. To me, fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you to death. ~Taylor Swift

To shine your brightest light is to be who you truly are. ~Roy T. Bennett

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure. ~J.K. Rowling

To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world. ~Bill Wilson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. ~Leo Buscaglia

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. ~David Mitchell

Treat everyone with politeness and kindness, not because they are nice, but because you are. ~Roy T. Bennett

Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit. ~Molière

True love is not so much a matter of romance as it is a matter of anxious concern for the well-being of ones companion. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

Try a little harder to be a little better. ~Gordon B. Hinckley

Turn your obstacles into opportunities and your problems into possibilities. ~Roy T. Bennett

Turn your wounds into wisdom. ~Oprah Winfrey

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse. ~Thomas Szasz

Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. ~J.K. Rowling

Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering. ~Paulo Coelho

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are. ~Marilyn Monroe

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are ~Kurt Cobain

Wash yourself of yourself. ~Jalaluddin Rumi

We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. ~Steve Maraboli

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously. ~George R.R. Martin

We are all different. Don’t judge, understand instead. ~Roy T. Bennett

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. ~Oscar Wilde

We are flawed creatures, all of us. Some of us think that means we should fix our flaws. But get rid of my flaws and there would be no one left. ~Sarah Vowell

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than keats, scientists greater than newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our dna so massively exceeds the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and i, in our ordinariness, that are here.we privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred ~Richard Dawkins

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the universe. That makes us something very special. ~Stephen Hawking

We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire, often against reality, against their benefit, and always, in the end, a disappointment, because it does not fit them. ~Anaïs Nin

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it. ~Rick Warren

We don’t need a list of rights and wrongs, tables of dos and don’ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but once upon a time lasts forever. ~Philip Pullman

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. ~Bob Ross

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