Insightful Quotes - Page 10

• It's about how you're like a lighthouse, always searching far into the distance. But the thing you're looking for is usually close to you and always has been. That's why you have to look within yourself to find answers instead of searching beyond.

  Susane Colasanti

  Distance, Looks, Answers

  Susane Colasanti (2009). “Waiting For You”, p.162, Penguin

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• Life is just a mirror, and what you see out there, you must first see inside of you.

  Wally Amos

  Life, Success, Cheer

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• Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

  Duane Michals

  Photography, Nikon, Photographer

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• There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

  Erica Jong

  Marriage, Broken Heart, Divorce

  Erica Jong (1995). “How to Save Your Own Life”, N A L Trade

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• I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Feelings, Murder

  Interview with Paul Hutchinson, in Christian Century 28 Aug. 1929

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• Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.

  Walter Kirn

  Fiction, Stories, Short Story

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• The strength of character and emotional intelligence to face your failures and learn from them are at the core of success.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Strength, Success

  Twitter post from Mar 22, 2017

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• One of the primary reasons why people struggle financially is because they cannot control their emotion of fear.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Fear

  Twitter post from Mar 08, 2017

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• Why'd you want to sing about sad things?" Candy had asked him. "Because any fool can be happy," he'd said to her. "It takes a man with real heart" —he'd made a fist and laid it against his chest— "to make beauty out of the stuff that makes us weep.

  Clive Barker

  Real, Heart, Men

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• Congratulations on your job at the bank! Yes. You work for the bank. After taxes, your largest expense is your mortgage and credit-card debt.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Success, Sarcastic

  FaceBook post by Robert Kiyosaki from Jun 04, 2012

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• Those who live by mystery & charlatanerie, fearing you would render them useless by simplifying the Christian philosophy - the most sublime and benevolent, but most perverted system that ever shone on man - endeavored to crush your well-earned & well-deserved fame.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Atheist, Men, Religion

  Letter to Dr. Joseph Priestley, March 21, 1801.

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• It must be hard being you,” she said. “Mr. Perfect on the outside. Dr. Evil on the inside.” “It’s not that hard. The rest of the world isn’t as insightful as you.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Evil, Perfect, Drs

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• True religion is the life we lead, not the creed we profess.

  Louis Nizer

  Positive, Spirituality, Spiritual Healing

  Louis Nizer (1978). “Reflections Without Mirrors: An Autobiography of the Mind”, Doubleday Books

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• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Positive, Children

  Norman Vincent Peale (2015). “Have a Great Day: Daily Affirmations for Positive Living”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.

  Steve McCurry

  Inspirational, Photography, Cameras

  "Steve McCurry’s Photographs Of His Travels Will Give You The Chills" by Rebecca Shapiro, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 24, 2015.

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• Perhaps the very best question that you can memorize and repeat, over and over, is, 'what is the most valuable use of my time right now?'

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Success, Time

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• Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

  Charles Kettering

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hope

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• I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

  Bill Parcells

  Confidence, Like You, Genuine

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• Nothing else matters much...not wealth, nor learning, nor even health...without this gift: the spiritual capacity to keep zest in living. This is the creed of creeds, the final deposit and distillation of all important faiths: that you should be able to believe in life.

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

  Life, Encouraging, Spiritual

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• The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Happiness, Uplifting, Kindness

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2014). “The Art of Being Alive - Revisited (Annotated): Success Through Thought”, p.24, BookBaby

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• Everything you now do is something you have chosen to do. Some people don't want to believe that. But if you're over age twenty-one, your life is what you're making of it. To change your life, you need to change your priorities

  John C. Maxwell

  Life, Change, Believe

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• Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Success, Determination

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• People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.

  Brian Tracy

  Work, Inspiration, Clear Goals

  Twitter post from Feb 03, 2015

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• Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

  Richard DeVos

  Life, Relationship, Money

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• The game isn't over till it's over.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

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