Inspirational Quotes ... Page 2
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"In retrospect, we regret the things we didn't do more than the things we did." - Empire Records
"If you don't have anything you don't have anything to lose." - Sixteen Candles
"No day is so bad that it can't be fixed with a nap."
"Dreams are like stars, you may never touch them, but if you follow them they will lead you to your destiny."
"There are two paths you can go by, but in the long run there's still time to change the road you're on."
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you make the wrong turn."
"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."
"The only unreachable dream, is the one you don't reach for."
"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people will not feel insecure around you. We were born to manifest the glory of God that is within us. It isn't just some of us, it is everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give others permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela
"we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are." -max du pree
"you will look back on the times you laughed and you will cry, you look back on the times you cried, and you will laugh. you will always remember close friends, and you will always keep memories of them in your heart. life is hard. it's tough, and it's unfair, but everyone gets over the hurt and the pain, eventually, and you always end up with a smile on your face, if you give it a chance ."
"the only thing that will stop you from fulfilling your dreams is you." - tom Bradley
"there are moments that mark your life, moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same again, and time is divided into two parts, before this and after this, now sometimes you can feel such a moment coming, that's the test, or so i tell myself at times like these: strong people keep moving forward anyway, no matter what they're gonna find."
"I believe life is constantly testing us for our level of commitment, and life's greatest rewards are reserved for those who demonstrate a never-ending commitment to act until they achieve. This level of resolve can move mountains, but it must be constant and consistent. As simplistic as this may sound, it is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret."
"It's not whether you get knocked down. It's whether or not you get back up again."
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure." - Gen. Colin L. Powell
"If someone tells you that you cannot do something and you believe it, they are right." - Carol Burnett
"Margaret Mitchell's classic novel Gone With the Wind was rejected by over 25 publishers. 'The public is not interested in Civil War stories,' they said." - Words of Wisdom
"happiness depends upon ourselves." -Aristotle
"if you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it. anything you want to, do it. want to change the world? there's nothing to it." - willy wonka and the chocolate factory
"we have to be able to criticize what we love; say what we have to say -- 'cause if you're not trying to make something better, as far as I can tell, you're just in the way." - ani difranco, 'what if no one's watching?'
"It's not how long you're here, but what you do while you're here." - Jonathan Larson
"If you look back on your year and it doesn't bring you tears, of joy or sadness, then it was a year wasted." - Ally McBeal
"I dare you to move, I dare you to lift yourself up off the floor. I dare you to move, like today never happened, today never happened before." - Switchfoot
"the hard things, they get easier." - party of five
"they love to tell you stay inside the lines, but something's better on the other side." - john mayer
"I guess we are who we are for a lot of reasons. and maybe we'll never know most of them. but even if we don't have the power to choose where we come from, we can still choose where we go from there." - the perks of being a wallflower
"a goal without action is only a wish."
"You can't change a stubborn mind. You can't see the world if your eyes are blind." - amanda marshall, "shades of grey"
"You can fill a lifetime with if-onlys or you can get on with it." - summer sisters by judy blume
"all endings are also beginnings. we just don't know it at the time." - the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom
"there is no such thing as 'too late' in life." - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'But the big things -- how we think, what we value -- those you must choose yourself. You can't let anyone -- or any society -- determine those for you.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'we don't believe we are as much alike as we are. Whites and blacks, Catholics and Protestants, men and women. If we saw each other as more alike, we might be very eager to join in one big human family in this world, and to care about that family the way we care about our own.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'if you've found the meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'take any emotion -- love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions -- if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them -- you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say, 'all right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.''" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'so many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.'" - tuesdays with morrie by mitch albom
"'we just have to live our lives to the fullest while we still have lives to live.'"- the heat seekers by zane
"every day the opportunity exists to change your life. but most days, the idea of having to change the big things in life just seems like too much work. should i lie on the couch and watch a movie, or should i confront my personal demons? you get the point." - girls' poker night by jill a davis
"If you play it safe in life you've decided you don't want to grow anymore." - Shirley Hutstedler
"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its course." - Ital Borland
"sometimes the best way to find out who you are, is to get to that place where you don't have to be anything else." - dave matthews band
"more powerful than the will to win is the courage to begin." - anon
"when you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength." - arnold schwarznegger
"you cant have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time." - charles f. kettering
"The strongest people in the world are the ones who think they're weak." - Jacqueline kelly
"Failure is not falling down; it is remaining where you have fallen."
"you can't always control the circumstances in life, but you can control your attitude toward those circumstances." -alexander lockhart