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Inspirational Quotes
"We only live if we dream."
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"Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value and its face of eter1nal youth."
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"Don't let your problems push you. Let your dreams lead you! The lens you choose to view the world determines how you feel about yourself and everything around you. Optimism attracts goodness into our lives and gives us strength to overcome obstacles. You can't live a positive life with a negative attitude. Heaven on earth is not a place we must find, it is a choice we must make. Let every day be a love you can feel. Let every day be a dream you can touch. Let every day be a reason to live. Life is too short to be anything but positive!"
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"So I just had to step up how I was doing it and the moment that I stepped up and the moment I focused all my energy on that is when things started to happen. So there's a direct relationship between my inspiration and my output."
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"I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
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"Though I may deny poets their monopoly on inspiration, I still place them in a select group of Fortune's darlings."
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"It may be those who do most, dream most."
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"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures."
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"But it is said: Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger. The choice is yours: to go or wait.''And it is also said,' answered Frodo: 'Go not to the Elves for counsel for they will answer both no and yes.''Is it indeed?' laughed Gildor. 'Elves seldom give unguarded advice, for advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
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"With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that -I say, you should ad-dress a Cat.But always keep in mind that heResents familiarity.I bow, and taking off my hat,Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat!But if he is the Cat next door,Whom I have often met before(He comes to see me in my flat)I greet him with an oopsa Cat!I think I've heard them call him James -But we've not got so far as names."
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"Human beings have speculated about the relationship between inspiration and insanity for centuries."
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"When you feel good you want to go out into the big wide world and make a positive difference. You feel love when you feel good and you want to give that love to everyone you meet. As you go along, you find that most others want what you have and they are usually very willing students, wanting to learn what you already learned so long ago."
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"Being different and thinking different makes a person unforgettable. History does not remember the forgettable."
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"Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself."
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"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars."
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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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"To be fearless, you must simply fear less."
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"If it's true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get."
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"The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers."
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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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"Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that."
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"From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning."
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"If a violent act towards a woman takes place, and the inspiration for that act is violence in cinema, the inspiration for that act would have come from somewhere else if movies didn't exist."
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"Making others better is a core value of a great life."
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"How great are the dangers I face to win a good name in Athens."
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"Extraordinary people always inspire others."
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"I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up."
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"Passion is not a thing, it's a state of mind."
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"Sometimes all you need is one person with a guilty conscience to come forward and do the right thing. Often, the miracle you need resides inside of yourself, when you humbly ask for forgiveness."
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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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"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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"A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths."
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"Every great inspiration is but an experiment."
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"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history."
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"If the material is inspiring and motivates you, then it doesn't really matter what it is."
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"Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content."
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"This was all the inspiration it took: We put 100 percent of ourselves in the lines. We personally take care of everything, from fulfillment to answering the mail."
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"Do the thing and you will have the power."
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"One could make a nice link between imagination and spirit. To make that link, all we need is some inspiration. Essentially, imagination has the innate potential to compel or inspire and to set in motion causation. That's why it exists."
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"Times of adversity are golden moments."
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"Your sacred contribution in the world is the service to humanity."
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"And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
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"I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book."
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"Just the example Delaware State University graduates set by the way they live their lives, should be an inspiration to other high school students to go to Delaware State."
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"I never liked jazz music because jazz music doesn't resolve. But I was outside the Bagdad Theater in Portland one night when I saw a man playing the saxophone. I stood there for fifteen minutes, and he never opened his eyes.After that I liked jazz music.Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself. It is as if they are showing you the way.I used to not like God because God didn't resolve. But that was before any of this happened."
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"When one sings, one does not speak about the problems of the every day. One speaks about the things which inspire us, which helped us."
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"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials."
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"Inspiration is God making contact with itself."
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"We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king."
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