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Welcome to my collection of positive inspirational and motivational quotes and sayings. May they motivate and inspire you to live your best life.
Don't let one cloud obliterate the whole sky.
- Anais Nin
The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
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Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw
What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha
Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland
Be the Melody in the Symphony of Your Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Choose the World You See,
and See the World You Choose.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
What lies behind us and what lies before us
are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)
Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile,
but sometimes your smile
can be the source of your joy.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Faith is taking the first step,
even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow,
you gotta put up with the rain.
- Dolly Parton
What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Another Sunrise, Another New Beginning.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
In spite of unseasonable wind, snow
and unexpected weather of all sorts -
a gardener still plants.
And tends what they have planted ...
believing that Spring will come.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The future belongs to those
who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.
- John F. Kennedy
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
I give thanks for both my bloom and my thorns.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Whatever you do, you need courage.
Whatever course you decide upon,
there is always someone to tell you
that you are wrong.
There are always difficulties arising
that tempt you to believe your critics are right.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Marianne Williamson
Choose what lies in the shadows to be a matter
for discovery and adventure, rather than fear.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford
Standing in the inspiring vision of my future,
I boldly take every step - large and small -
with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Attitude is everything.
- Charles Swindoll
Life is always lived in the eye-of-the-storm
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Fly Life on Free Wings, and Sing to its Glory.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare
The jump is so frightening
between where I am,
and where I want to be.
Because of all I may become,
I will close my eyes and leap.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
- Helen Keller
The mind is not a vessel to be filled
but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch
The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned,
so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.
- Joseph Campbell
To go against the dominant thinking of your friends,
of most of the people you see every day,
is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life expands to fill your dreams.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day, saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
I am not afraid of storms
for I am learning how to sail my ship.
- Louisa May Alcott
One can never consent to creep when one feels the impulse to soar.
- Helen Keller
If I feel depressed I will sing.
If I feel sad I will laugh.
If I feel ill I will double my labor.
If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.
If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.
If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.
If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.
If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.
If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.
Today I will be the master of my emotions.
- Og Mandino
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
- Raymond Lindquist
Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous
Life is 10 percent what happens to me
and 90 percent how I react to it.
- Charles Swindoll
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
- Swedish Proverb
If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb
If there is a will, there is a way.
- Anonymous
You do not need anyone's permission to be your true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Always Sing Melody in the Symphony of Your Own Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more.
If you concentrate on what you don't have,
you will never, ever have enough.
- Oprah Winfrey
We cannot choose our external circumstances,
but we can always choose how to respond to them.
- Epictetus
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do.
So throw off the bowlines.
Sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain
All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
Sing like no one's listening,
love like you've never been hurt,
dance like nobody's watching,
and live like its heaven on earth.
- Mark Twain
Success is failure recycled.
Life is death reborn.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Our lives are defined not by the challenges we encounter,
but by how we respond to those challenges.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
Circumstance does not make the man: it reveals him to himself.
- James Allen
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Today is the first day of the rest of your life.
- Anonymous
I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Happiness is a choice.
- Anonymous
"Hurry up" ranks right up there with "you need to"
as a destroyer of our humanity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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