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  Inspirational Quotes - To have what you have never had, you have to do what you have never done.   “Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” ― Homer, The Odyssey   “We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust.” ― Rumi   “Kindness is not a business. True kindness expects nothing in return and should never act with conditions.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.” ― Frances Hodgson Burnett, A Little Princess     “If you hang out with chickens, you're going to cluck and if you hang out with eagles, you're going to fly.” ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections o...

  Inspirational Quotes - Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.   “Getting something and having the wits to use it...those are two different things.” ― Rick Riordan, The Battle of the Labyrinth   “Equality is not a concept. It's not something we should be striving for. It's a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who's confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now.” ― Joss Whedon   “People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.” ― Malcolm X   “Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.” ― Rumi, The Essential Rumi   “Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “...

  Inspirational Quotes - You will never be able to escape from your heart   “Responsibility to yourself means refusing to let others do your thinking, talking, and naming for you...it means that you do not treat your body as a commodity with which to purchase superficial intimacy or economic security; for our bodies to be treated as objects, our minds are in mortal danger. It means insisting that those to whom you give your friendship and love are able to respect your mind. It means being able to say, with Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: "I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all the extraneous delights should be withheld or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.   Responsibility to yourself means that you don't fall for shallow and easy solutions--predigested books and ideas...marrying early as an escape from real decisions, getting pregnant as an evasion of already existing problems. It means that you refuse to sell your talent...

  Inspirational Quotes - What are you going to do with your life?   “What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her this forever; teachers, her parents, friends at three in the morning, but the question had never seemed this pressing and still she was no nearer an answer... "Live each day as if it's your last', that was the conventional advice, but really, who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance.” ― David Nicholls, One Day   “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ― Andre Gide   “Dream as if you will live fo...

  Inspirational Quotes - There are two ways to reach me   “We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” ― Carlos Castaneda   “Stop giving other people the power to control your happiness, your mind, and your life. If you don't take control of yourself and your own life, someone else is bound to try.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart   “The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.” ― Jodi Picoult   “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson   “There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.” ― Anaïs Nin, HENRY AND JUNE   “I believe there is another world w...