Inspirational Quotes
"Find out who you are, and do it on purpose."
- Dolly Parton
"If you think you know exactly where you are going in life, you're probably lost."
- Christine Page, M.D.
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there!"
- Will Rogers
"Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball."
- Jacques Barzun
"There are years when nothing happens and years in which centuries happen."
- Carlos Fuentes
"When the gods want to punish you, they answer your prayers."
- Isak Dinesen in "Out of Africa"
"Never hold a dust buster and a cat at the same time."
- Kyoya, age 9, Advice from Kids
"I would rather be whole than good."
- Carl Jung
"When you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount."
- Dakota tribal saying
"…One day you knew what you had to do, and began, even though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice…"
- Mary Oliver ( poem )
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
- Benjamin Franklin
"When God made time, he made enough of it."
- Celtic saying
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and grow in spite of obstacles."
- Christopher Reeve, Omega Institute conference, April, 2004
"The first rule of holes: when you are in one, stop digging."
- Molly Ivins
"Socrates said the unexamined life is not worth living. But the (over)examined life makes you wish you were dead. Given the alternative, I'd rather be living."
- Saul Bellow
"Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it."
- Salvador Dali
"I may not be perfect, but parts of me are excellent!"
- quote on t-shirt, circa 1980
"Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function."
- Garrison Keillor
"This machine surrounds hate and forces it to surrender."
- quote stenciled on banjo belonging to Pete Seeger, folk singer
"Do or do not - there is no try."
- Yoda, Jedi Master
"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least possible amount of hissing."
- J. B. Colbert
"To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?"
- Katherine Graham
"Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses."
- Rosalind Russell
"Life is short - wear your partypants!"
- Loretta Laroche
"You had better get busy living or get busy dieing."
- Andy in "The Shawshank Redemption"
"…if you have passion for what you do, the company you keep, the life you live, it will be reflected in whatever you create. Passion is like that; it springs out, jumps, unpredictable and unplanned, into every thing we do. If it doesn't, others know. Passion can't be faked and it can't be manufactured…Which is why it is so priceless."
- unknown source
"Fate - the only cosmic force with a tragic sense of humor"
- unknown source
"On with the dance, let the joy be unconfined' is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to be unconfined."
- Mark Twain
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed…I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. General and 34th president ( c. 1959)
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who declare their neutrality in times of crisis…"
- Dante's Divine Comedy
"Never apologize for showing emotion. Remember that when you do, you apologize for truth."
- Benjamin Disraeli
"Be open - there is nothing held in unswept corners, which is not or does not become, dust."
- "Imperative", Ted Enslin
"Running with the pack is not so easy, as one might suppose. It takes a special kind of guts to listen to the same old noise day after day…even if the peace at night is rewarding. Going it alone has hazards, too, but you meet a better breed of freaks."
- Rod McKuen
"Oh, my friend, what time is this, to trade the handshake for the fist?"
- Joni Mitchell
"I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant."
- anonymous
"Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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