Quotes from Inspirational People


“If you want others to be happy,
practice compassion.
If you want to be happy,
practice compassion.”

The Dalai Lama

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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

- Martin Luther King

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

Quotes on Dreams

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. Begin it now.

Goethe German Poet, Novelist

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"The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Eleanor Roosevelt

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Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

George Bernard Shaw
Irish Playwright and Critic

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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."

Mark Twain
American Author, Humorist

Quotes on Love

"Love is not a thing to understand.
Love is not a thing to feel.
Love is not a thing to give and receive.
Love is a thing only to become
And eternally be. "

- Sri Chinmoy (1)

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Love is an endless mystery,
for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love's gift cannot be given,
it waits to be accepted.

Rabindranath Tagore

 

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Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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That best portion of a good man's life; his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

William Wordsworth
English Poet

 

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

-Mahatma Gandhi

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"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Quotes on Hope

" Hope abides; therefore I abide.
Countless frustrations have not cowed me.
I am still alive, vibrant with life.
The black cloud will disappear,
The morning sun will appear once again
In all its supernal glory. "

Sri Chinmoy

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What keeps us alive, what allows us to endure?
I think it is the hope of loving,
or being loved.

- Meister Eckhart

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"There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as if everything is."

Albert Einstein

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“And in the end, it's not the years in your life
that count. It's the life in your years.”

Abraham Lincoln

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If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

Emily Dickinson

Quotes on Truth

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In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

George Orwell

Quotes on Gratitude

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At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person.
Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.

- Albert Schweitzer

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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

- Cicero

Quotes on War and Peace

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" If there be one principle more deeply rooted than any other in the mind of every American, it is, that we should have nothing to do with conquest."

Thomas Jefferson

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" We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities."

Thomas Jefferson

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"We can either climb together or fall into the abyss."

Mikhail Gorbachev