Inspiring
Quotes
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Be very,
very careful what you put into that head,
because
you will never, ever get it out.
-Thomas
Cardinal Wolsey
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It matters
not how many fish are in the sea
. . if
you don't have any bait on your hook.
-
West, Dial
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When
there is no enemy within, the enemies
outside cannot hurt you.
-AfricanProverb
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Don't
fight forces; use them.
-Anonymous
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If a
man take no thought about what is at a
distance,
he will find sorrow near at hand.
-Anonymous
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When
you have no choice, mobilize the
spirit of courage.
- Proverb, Jewish
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Reflect
on your present blessings, of which
every man has many, not on your past
misfortunes, of which all men have some.
-Charles Dickens
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The way
of superior man is three-fold: Virtuous, he is free from anxieties;
Wise,
he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
-Confucius
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Fear
is the elixir of those who seek to eradicate freedom.
-Diane
Fornbacher
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You cannot
comfort the afflicted if you do not afflict the comfortable.
-Princess
Diana
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There
aren't any leaders, honey.
I think
people are banging their heads against a stone wall.
-Nina
Simone
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Forgiveness
does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
-Paul
Boese
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Destiny
has two ways of crushing us -- by refusing our wishes and by fulfilling
them.
-Henri
Frederic Amiel
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Listen
or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
-American
Indian Proverb
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A statesman
is a dead politician. Lord knows, we need more statesmen.
-Opus
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There's
music in the sighing of a reed; There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears: Their earth is but an echo
of the
spheres.
-Byron
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Rest
not! Life is sweeping by; go and dare before you die. Something mighty
and sublime, leave behind to conquer time.
-Goethe
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The language
of friendship is not words but meanings.
-Thoreau
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He who
knoweth the precepts by heart,
but faileth to practice them,
Is like unto one who lighteth a lamp
and then shutteth his eyes.
-Nagarjuna
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There
are two ways of passing from this world - one in light and one in
darkness. When one passes in light, he does not come back; but when one
passes in darkness, he returns.
-Bhagavad
Gita
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Demand
not that events should happen as you wish, but wish them to happen
as they do, and you will go on well.
-Epictetus
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A drop
of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need
to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon
on one
thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light.
-Hung
Tzu-ch'eng
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Freedom
is the emancipation from the arbitrary rule of other men.
-Mortimer
Adler
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The more
taboos and inhibitions there are in the world,
The poorer
the people become...
The more
articulate the laws and ordinances,
The more
robbers and thieves arise.
- Lao
Tzu, Tao Teh Ching
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Why not
go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?!?
-Frank
Scully
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Tis nobler
to lose honor to save the lives of men than tis to gain honor by taking
them.
-David
Borenstein
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It is
not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-Rene
Descartes
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One's
mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regain sits original dimensions.
-Oliver
Wendel Holmes
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When
you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
-Franklin
D. Roosevelt
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Fear
less, hope more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more;
Hate
less, love more; And all good things are yours.
-Swedish
Proverb
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Those
who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George
Santayana
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An insincere
and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast;
a wild
beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.
-Buddha
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One thing
you can't recycle is wasted time.
-Anonymous
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Darkness
cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate
cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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He who
angers you conquers you.
-Elizabeth
Kenny
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Fear
is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.
-Michael
Pritchard
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If one
desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.
-Gita
Bellin
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This
country has come to feel the same when congress is in session as when a
baby
gets
hold of a hammer.
-Will
Rogers
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The moral
flabbiness born of the bitch-goddess SUCCESS. That -- with the squalid
cash
interpretation put on the word success -- is our national disease.
--William
James (1842-1910)
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The opposite
of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness,
it's
indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And
the opposite of
life
is not death, it's indifference.
-Elie
Wiesel
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To accomplish
great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan,
but also
believe.
-Anatole
France
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Nothing
strengthens authority so much as silence.
-Charles
De Gaulle
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It is
a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public
to be the most
anxious for its welfare.
-Edmund
Burke
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It is
better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
-Confucius
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It gives
me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible
nonconformist
warmly acclaimed.
-Albert
Einstein
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We are
discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with
the drove. (not me!)
-Mark
Twain
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Often
the test of courage is not to die but to live.
-Vittorio
Alfieri
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Courage
is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
-Napolean
Bonaparte
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That's
the risk you take if you change: that people you've been involved with
won't like the
new you. But other people who do will come along.
-Lisa
Alther
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Moral
courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence.
Yet it
is one, essential vital quality for those who seek to change a world that
yields
most
painfully to change.
-Robert
F. Kennedy
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Please
hear our cry with the urgency it speaks to your soul, your heart if you
will.
Most of us have exhausted every means through a system that is not responding
and
insists to keep us warehoused as the living dead.
-Michelle
Galiatsatos,
daughter
of a prisoner in jail wrongly accused of drug trafficking
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Ye shall
know the truth and the truth will make you mad.
-Aldous
Huxley
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When
we lose the right to be different,
we lose
the privilege to be free.
-Charles
Evan Hughes
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A government
is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
-James
Reston
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Although
man is already ninety per cent water,
the Prohibitionists
are not yet satisfied.
-John
Kendrick Bangs
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Pot smokers
are like roaches--where you find one , there are thousands
of others
hiding in the closet.
-ANON
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How long
will they kill our prophets while we stand aside and look?
-Robert
(Bob) Nesta Marley
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A person
who won't die for something is not fit to live.
-Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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It is
an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.
-John
F. Kennedy
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It is
dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
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For if
he like a madman lived,
At least
he like a wise one died.
-Cervantes
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Those
who would give up essential liberty to purchase
a little
temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-Benjamin
Franklin
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I
feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human
beings. I am so
absorbed in the wonder of earth and the life upon it that I cannot think
of heaven and angels.
-Pearl
S. Buck
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They've
got the guns, but we've got THE NUMBERS!
-James
Douglas Morrison
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Law never
made men a whit more just; and, by means of their respect for it,
even
the well-disposed are daily made the agents of injustice.
-Thoreau
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Only
our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.
-Dwight
D. Eisenhower
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The marvelous
richness of human experience would lose something
of rewarding
joy if there were no limitations to overcome.
-Helen
Keller
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I shut
my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
-Sylvia
Plath, Poetess
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I offer
images- I conjure memories of freedom that can still be reached- like the
Doors, right?
But we
can only open the doors, we can't drag people through. I can't free them
unless they want
to be
free. Maybe primitive people have less bullshit to let go of, to give up.
A person has to be
willing
to give up everything- not just wealth. All the bullshit that he's been
taught- all society's
brainwashing.
You have to let go of all that to get to the other side.
Most
people aren't willing to do that.
-James
Douglas Morrison
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The greatest
service which can be rendered any country is to add
a useful
plant to its culture.
-Thomas
Jefferson
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Our hopes
had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disapointment
settled
upon us. We had no alternative except prepare for DIRECT ACTION,
whereby
we would present our very bodies as a means of laying
our cases
before the conscience of the local, national, (and the international) community.
-Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr.
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We
who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow,
have
to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments.
-Oscar
Wilde
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Freedom
is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it,
even
as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
-Germaine
Greer
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If one
moves confidently in the direction of his/her dreams and endeavors to live
the life
imagined, one will meet with success unexpected in common hours and begin
to
live
with the license of a higher order of being.
--Thoreau
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Each
time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others.
. .they send forth a
ripple
of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy
and daring,
those
ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression
and resistance.
--Robert
F. Kennedy
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Those
who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- John
Kennedy
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Everyone
thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
- Leo
Tolstoy
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If
you are the big tree,
Let
me tell you that
We are
the small axe
Ready
to put you down--
Sharpened
to put you down...
-Robert Nesta Marley
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Man is
his own star; and the soul that can
Render
an honest and a perfect man (or woman)
Commands
all light, all influence, all fate;
Nothing
to him falls early or too late.
-Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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Satire
has always shone among the rest,
And is
the boldest way, if not the best,
To tell
men freely of their faults,
To laugh
at their vain deeds and vainer thoughts.
-Anonymous
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You must
be the change you wish to see in the world!
- Ghandi
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Our lives
begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin
Luther King, Jr.
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All that
is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
-Edmond
Burke
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If ye
value wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better
than
the animating contest for freedom, go home and leave us in peace. We seek
not
your council nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you
and
may posterity forget ye were our countrymen.
-Samuel
Adams.
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Our greatest
happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance
has placed
us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health,
occupation,
and freedom in all just pursuits.
-Thomas
Jefferson