INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES
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“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
Louis "Lou" Holtz
OVERCOMING
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
C.S. Lewis
OVERCOMING
“The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.”
Alan Alda
CREATIVITY
“Creative people do not see things for what they are; they see them for what they can be.”
Julie Israel
CREATIVITY
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well…, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
Vaclav Havel
HOPE
“We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
HOPE
“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering 'it will be happier'...”
Alfred Lord Tennyson
HOPE
“What greater thing is there for human souls than to feel that they are joined for life - to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories.”
George Eliot [Mary Ann Evans]
FAMILY
“It didn’t matter how big our house was; it mattered that there was love in it.”
Peter Buffett
FAMILY
“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.”
Richard David Bach
FAMILY
“Having somewhere to go is home, having someone to love is family, having both is blessing.”
Unknown
FAMILY
“This is my wish for you: peace of mind, prosperity through the year, happiness that multiplies, health for you and yours, fun around every corner, energy to chase your dreams, joy to fill your holidays!”
D.M. Dellinger
CHEER
“After every storm the sun will smile; for every problem there is a solution, and the soul's indefeasible duty is to be of good cheer.”
William R. Alger
CHEER
“I say to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.”
George Matthew Adams
CHEER
“Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.”
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
GIVING BACK
“Giving is not just about making a donation, it's about making a difference.”
Kathy Calvin
GIVING BACK
“Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be.”
Dr. Wayne Dyer
PEACE
“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves…,and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”
Etty Hillesum
PEACE
“It is tenderness for the past, courage for the present, hope for the future. It is a fervent wish that every cup may overflow with blessings rich and eternal, and that every path may lead to peace.”
Agnes M. Pharo
PEACE
“Fear grows out of the things we think; it lives in our minds. Compassion grows out of the things we are, and lives in our hearts.”
Barbara Garrison
COMPASSION
“Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.”
Nelson Mandela
COMPASSION
“There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.”
John Connolly
COMPASSION
“Two kinds of gratitude: the sudden kind we feel for what we take; the larger kind we feel for what we give.”
Edwin Arlington Robinson
GRATITUDE
“Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”
William Arthur Ward
GRATITUDE
“It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.”
Germany Kent
GRATITUDE
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
Marcel Proust
GRATITUDE
“Humility isn't denying your strengths; it's being honest about your weaknesses.”
Rick Warren
HUMILITY
“I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.”
Mahatma Gandhi
