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  I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else.

  Dolly Parton

  Motivational, People, Entrepreneur

  Twitter post from Nov 03, 2010

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• A goal without a plan is just a wish.

  Larry Elder

  Inspirational, Success, Motivation

  Larry Elder (2001). “The Ten Things You Can't Say In America”, p.62, Macmillan

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• This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties in life is unavoidable, is an intrinsic part of human existence -- but that if one does not shy away, but steadfastly meets unexpected and often unjust hardships, one masters all obstacles and at the end emerges victorious.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Life, Motivational, Encouraging

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales”, Vintage

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• Hang with people who support and uplift you.

  Mastin Kipp

  People, Support

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• If it's not exactly like you thought it would be, you think it's a failure. What about the spectrum of colors in between.

  Sara Evans

  Positive, Thinking, Color

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  When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

  Khalil Gibran

  Moving On, Sympathy, Broken Heart

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.48, Lulu.com

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• closes, another one opens. Expect that new door to reveal even greater wonders and glories and surprises. ... Feel yourself grow and expand as you go through every experience, and look for the reason for it.

  Eileen Caddy

  Doors, Looks, Wonder

  "Opening Doors Within: 365 Daily Meditations from Findhorn".

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• Many religions now come before us with ingratiating smirks and outspread hands, like an unctuous merchant in a bazaar. They offer consolation and solidarity and uplift, competing as they do in a marketplace. But we have a right to remember how barbarically they behaved when they were strong and were making an offer that people could not refuse.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Strong, Atheist, Hands

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.51, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  Laozi

  Journey, Difficult And Easy, Taoism

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• If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

  Rick Warren

  Wall, Heart, Mean

  Twitter post from Dec 19, 2013

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• I believe that there is but One Thinker in the universe; that my thinking is His thinking, and that every man's thinking is an extension, through God, of every other man's thinking. I therefore think that the greater the exaltation and ecstasy of my thinking, the greater the standards of all man's thinking will be. Each man is thus empowered to uplift all men as each drop of water uplifts the entire ocean.

  Walter Russell

  Believe, Ocean, Men

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• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

  Bahá'u'lláh

  Art, Educational, Men

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• As long as you're actively pursuing your dream with a practical plan, you're still achieving, even if it feels as though you're going nowhere fast. Its been my experience that at the very moment I feel like giving up, I'm only one step from a breakthrough. Hang on long enough and circumstances will change, too. Trust in yourself, your dream and spirit.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Dream, Giving Up, Long

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• The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

  Alan Kay

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.95, Simon and Schuster

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• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Positive, Success

  "Excellent Quotations for Home and School" by Julia B. Hoitt, (p. 51), 1888.

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• Whatever you see you gotta keep a sense of humor; you gotta be able to smile through all the bullshit.

  Tupac Shakur

  Inspirational, Smile, Cheer Up

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• The most important thing is to be whatever you are without shame.

  Rod Steiger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

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• Even if I don't reach all my goals, I've gone higher than I would have if I hadn't set any.

  Danielle Fotopoulos

  Inspirational, Women, Goal

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• We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

  Earl Nightingale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Sleep

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, p.92, Lulu.com

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• We are all woven together in the great web of humanity, and whatever we can do to benefit and uplift others will reflect in blessing upon ourselves.

  Ellen G. White

  Blessing, Humanity, Together

  Ellen G. White (2015). “The Complete Conflict of the Ages”, p.625, Simon and Schuster

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• When is a game more than a game? So often, we pay lip service to the uplifting power of sports, the teamwork, the camaraderie, the lessons in taming one's own ego for the sake of the group. But you have to wonder, how often is that still really true?

  Michel Martin

  Sports, Teamwork, Often Is

  "Lebron James: 'More Than A Game' - Part II". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. October 15, 2009.

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• It is a great tragedy that science, this wonderful process for finding out what is true, has ceded the spiritual uplift of its central revelations: the vastness of the universe, the immensity of time, the relatedness of all life, and life's preciousness on our tiny planet.

  Ann Druyan

  Spiritual, Tragedy, Vastness

  "Ann Druyan Talks About Science, Religion, Wonder, Awe . . . and Carl Sagan". Skeptical Inquirer Interview, Volume 27.6, www.csicop.org. November / December 2003.

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• Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.

  Jim Morrison

  Love, Life, Friendship

  "Jim Morrison: Ten Years Gone". "Creem Magazine" Interview with Lizzie James, 1981.

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Encouraging

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.

  Laozi

  Confidence, Motivation, Greatest Treasure

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