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Inspirational Quotes
"Your actions are catalysts to another's actions. One could last a second, another could last to the end of mankind. Share kindness, plant the seed, help humanity overcome their greed."
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"Work like you don't need the money. Dance like no one is watching. And love like you've never been hurt."
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"Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life."
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"Dreams are the touchstones of our character."
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"It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are."
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"Method is much, technique is much, but inspiration is even more."
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"The inspiration to write? Perhaps it's not so much inspiration, as a NEED to write. I get itchy and guilty and dissatisfied when I haven't written for a while. Ideas come to me and need to be written down."
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"Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living."
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"What Fred Lebow went through was an inspiration for me. You have to set goals for yourself."
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"The pursuit of our dreams is not without any difficulty. Those who triumph have learn't to overcome the difficulty."
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"Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time."
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"Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of man's soul; of his determination, thought Mr. Bentley, sweeping round the cedar tree, to get outside his body, beyond his house, by means of thought, Einstein, speculation, mathematics, the Mendelian theory, away the aeroplane shot."
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"A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
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"You can create the life you wish to have."
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"Believe in something important. Pursue it wholeheartedly."
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"I do not believe in inspiration, but I must have a title in order to work, otherwise I am lost."
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"We only live if we dream."
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"Without dreams 'life'remains 'life'..always: neither better nor worse."
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"The treasure of life, learning."
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"It's a lie to think you're not good enough. It's a lie to think you're not worth anything."
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"I really do literally put myself into a character's shoes."
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"Watching 'Girls' has just given me renewed courage."
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"Sometimes we exist long enough to lead the next generation; other times, only to plant a seed and let its resonations of our time here on Earth ripple into new waves."
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"There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You're going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet."
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"I worked, and I was excited about the next time the five of us had a joint class. When that time came, Silvia started by asking us what we were passionate about. I scribbled down my family, music, and then, as if the word demanded to be written, justice."
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"I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own."
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"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
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"Self-education is lifelong curiosity."
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"Breathing dreams like air."
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"His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine."
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"Tighten your seat belt and enjoy the ride of life."
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"When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration."
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"A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen the light and I'm crowing."
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"One death is a tragedy; one million is a statistic."
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"Another inspiration that has helped me get through has been Lance Armstrong's story. My cancer is not nearly as bad as his, but I believe in staying motivated and keeping as fit as you can."
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"I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be."
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"PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry."
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"You usually can't tell what's inspiring until you look back on it."
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"Personally speaking there's only so long you can go from film to film to film. There's an inspiration an actor gets from the stage."
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
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"To be fearless, you must simply fear less."
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"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
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"Making others better is a core value of a great life."
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"Do not be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause."
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"Be sure to bend but never break."
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"I know from personal experience how damaging it can be to live with bitterness and unforgiveness. I like to say it's like taking poison and hoping your enemy will die. And it really is that harmful to us to live this way."
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"Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable."
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"When I sit at my table to write, I never know what it's going to be until I'm under way. I trust in inspiration, which sometimes comes and sometimes doesn't. But I don't sit back waiting for it. I work every day."
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"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
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