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Inspirations to Motivate

Started by Sunny, September 22, 2006, 11:13:30 PM

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Sunny

Nurture yourself, support others without assuming responsibility you resent, and feel your energy switch from'Eek!' to'Aah!

— Martha Beck

Sunny

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

--Epictetus

Sunny

If you have made mistakes...there is always another chance for you...you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call 'Failure' is not the falling down but the staying down.

— Mary Pickford

Sunny

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

-- Buddha

Sunny

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

-- Mark Twain

Palehorse

Quote from: Sunny on January 27, 2007, 09:12:45 AM
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.

-- Mark Twain

I have to remember this one!  :yes:
R.I.P. - followsthewolf - You are MISSED! 4/17/2013

That which fails to kill me. . .should run!

Any "point" made by one that lacks credibility, is only as useful as toilet paper; and serves the same purpose. ~ Palehorse 4/22/2017

May you find charity when it is needed, and the ability to extend it when it is not. ~Palehorse 7/4/2012

To the last, I grapple with thee; From Hell's heart, I stab at thee; For hate's sake, I spit my last breath at thee.~Herman Melville

Sunny


Sunny

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Sunny

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.

--Albert Einstein

Sunny

Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour...

— Walt Whitman

Sunny

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

--Confucius

Sunny

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure, not this thing nor that, but simply growth.

— W.B.Yeats

followsthewolf

Quote from: Sunny on February 09, 2007, 08:05:42 AM
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

--Confucius


One of my favorites.
Ignorance and fanaticism are ravenous. They require constant feeding.

Sunny

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth...is potentially to have everything...

— Joan Didion

Sunny

Love does not just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

--Ursula Le Guin