Insightful Quotes - Page 9

• It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, 'As pretty as an airport.

  Douglas Adams

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  1988 The Long Dark Tea- Time of the Soul, ch.1.

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• Self-esteem comes from being able to define the world in your own terms and refusing to abide by the judgments of others.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Wise, Self Esteem

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• It makes no difference how many peaks you reach if there was no pleasure in the climb.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Happiness, Wise, Differences

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• Love is the will to extend one's self for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth... Love is as love does. Love is an act of will -- namely, both an intention and an action. Will also implies choice. We do not have to love. We choose to love.

  M. Scott Peck

  Spiritual, Love Is, Self

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• 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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• Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones.

  Joan Rivers

  Breakup, Divorce, Unhappy

  Joan Rivers (1997). “Bouncing back: I've survived everything-- and I mean everything-- and you can too!”, Thorndike Pr

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• I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Atheist, Ignorance, Humility

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It may be those who do most, dream most.

  Stephen Leacock

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Success

  Stephen Leacock, Gerald Lynch (2002). “Leacock on Life”, p.52, University of Toronto Press

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• One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Past, Loser

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• When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.

  Pat Riley

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  Pat Riley (1993). “The winner within: a life plan for team players”, Putnam Adult

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• The question isn't at what age I want to retire, it's at what income.

  George Foreman

  Sports, Retirement, Boxing

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• Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

  Roy H. Williams

  Life, Money, Buying

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• Ethics cannot be based upon our obligations toward people, but they are complete and natural only when we feel this Reverence for Life and the desire to have compassion for and to help all creatures insofar as it is in our power. I think that this ethic will become more and more recognized because of its great naturalness and because it is the foundation of a true humanism toward which we must strive if our culture is to become truly ethical.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Life, Thinking, Compassion

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• They're basically moments in which you're in touch with the meaning of life, when your relationship to the rest of the universe makes sense.

  Barbara De Angelis

  Life, Moments, Our Relationship

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• The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.

  Madame de Stael

  Life, Encouragement, Connections

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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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• 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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• The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and 'consciousness' cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and 'will' cannot evolve involuntarily.

  G. I. Gurdjieff

  Men, Evolution Of Man, Consciousness

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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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• 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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