quotables

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"We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world."


Helen Keller... (One of my faves)

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

~~Helen Keller


Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

~~Helen Keller


College isn't the place to go for ideas.

~~Helen Keller


People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

~~Helen Keller


Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the world.

~~Helen Keller


Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.
Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927
The highest result of education is tolerance.

~~Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903

dreamncolor

Follow your bliss.
~ Joseph Campbell


Reach high, for the stars lie hidden in your soul.
Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal.
~ Pamela Vaull Starr


Hitch your wagon to a star.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


If you have enough fantasies, you're ready, in the event that something happens.
~ Sheila Ballantyne


If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in the common hours.
~ Henry David Thoreau


To live on purpose, follow your heart and live your dreams.
~ Marcia Wieder


Within your heart, keep one still, secret spot where dreams may go.
~ Louise Driscoll

Estranged

“A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” - Elbert Hubbard

“The real test of friendship is: can you do literally nothing with the other person? Can you enjoy those moments of life that are utterly simple?” - Eugene Kennedy

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


All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.
~ Walt Disney


Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them.
~ Louisa May Alcott


Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
~ Larry Niven


You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
~ George Bernard Shaw

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Whatever you can do, or dream you can - begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic to it.
~ Goethe


There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
~ G.K. Chesterton


If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
~ Henry David Thoreau

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When you're through changing, you're through.
~ Bruce Barton


To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
~ Henri Bergson


Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.
~ Prince Phillip of England

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One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.
~ Anatole France


Change is often rejuvenating, invigorating, fun. . . and necessary.
~ Lynn Povich


The first step toward change is acceptance. . . Change is not something you do, it's something you allow.
~ Will Garcia


All changes, even the most longed for, have thier melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.
~ Anatole France


Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.
~ Hal Borland

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Everything is connected . . . no one thing can change by itself.
~ Paul Hawken


If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it.
~ Marian Wright Edelman


Be the change you want to see in the world.
~ Mahatma Gandhi

SoLATisA

"ENOUGH WITH THE quoteS ALREADY!!!!! YOU HAVE LIKE 20 TIMES THE POSTS IN THIS THREAD THAN ANYONE ELSE, AND NO ONE IS READING, YOU HAVE OVER 120 POSTS MORE THAN THE NEXT HIGHEST POSTER"

- Evil SoLATisA

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SoLATisA wrote:

"ENOUGH WITH THE quoteS ALREADY!!!!! YOU HAVE LIKE 20 TIMES THE POSTS IN THIS THREAD THAN ANYONE ELSE, AND NO ONE IS READING, YOU HAVE OVER 120 POSTS MORE THAN THE NEXT HIGHEST POSTER"

- Evil SoLATisA

obviously - i don't care. whatthefuckever.

dreamncolor

The world will not change until we do.
~ Jim Wallis


When we are no longer able to change a situation . . . we are challenged to change ourselves.
~ Viktor Frankl


Will you be the rock that redirects the course of the river?
~ Clair Neuer

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Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
~ Leo Buscaglia


Yesterday is ashes; tomorrow wood. Only today does the fire burn brightly.
~ Eskimo saying


The past cannot be regained, although we can learn from it; the future is not yet ours even though we must plan for it . . . Time is now. We only have today.
~Charles Hummell


This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


We only have this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand . . . and melting like a snowflake. Let us use it before it is too late.
~ Marie Beynon

vmfury

The one thing that will destroy a relationship is selfishness.
~ S.S.

pamajama

There's no place like home
~Dorothy~

dreamncolor

Don't wait for extrodinary opportunities. Sieze common occasions and make them great.
~ Orison S. Marden


Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey twilight that knows not victory or defeat.
~ Theodore Roosevelt


Mistakes are portals of discovery.
~ James Joyce


What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail?
~ Robert Schuller


Courage is grace under pressure.
~ Ernest Hemingway

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To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson


The important thing is not that we can live on hope alone, but that life is not worth living without it.
~ Harvey Milk


Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
~ Anonymous


There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
~ G.K. Chesterton


Just remember - when you think all is lost, the future remains.
~ Bob Goddard

sennin

"I can accept faliure, I can't accept not trying"

-Michael Jordan

vmfury

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~ Aristotle

decides2dream

There are days when you don't have a song in your heart. Sing anyway.
~ Emory Austin


Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe that your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to the end, requires some of the same courage which a soldier needs.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson


To be courageous means to be afraid but to go a little step forward anyway.
~ Beverly Smith