Quotes and Sayings About Inspirational Life
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The only way to support a revolution is to make your own.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
-- Abraham Lincoln -
Man has his future within him, dynamically alive at this present moment.
-- Abraham Maslow -
In order to make anything a reality, you have to dream about it first.
-- Adora Svitak -
One does what one can, not what one cannot.
-- Agatha Christie -
You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
-- Albert Camus -
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 -
Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. This is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
-- Albert Schweitzer -
You can go through life and make new friends every year - every month practically - but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years. Those are the ones in which we are bound to one another with hoops of steel.
-- Alexander McCall Smith -
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
-- Alexander Woollcott -
When you expect good, it's available constantly, and it makes itself a reality in your life.
-- Alfre Woodard -
Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.
-- Alice Walker -
The most important thing to remember is that you can wear all the greatest clothes and all the greatest shoes, but you’ve got to have a good spirit on the inside. That’s what’s really going to make you look like you’re ready to rock the world.
-- Alicia Keys -
Our present world contains clues...to another world-a world which we can begin to experience now, but will only know in all its fullness at the end of things.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
-- Anais Nin -
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are." Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage "People living deeply have no fear of death.
-- Anais Nin -
The very things we wish to avoid, neglect and flee from turn out to be the 'prima materia' from which all real growth comes.
-- Andrew Harvey -
Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide.
-- Andrew Johnson -
You are confined only by the walls you build yourself.
-- Andrew Murphy -
I have amazing friends who have led inspirational lives.
-- Andrew Shue -
When you leave college, there are thousands of people out there with the same degree you have; when you get a job, there will be thousands of people doing what you want to do for a living. But you are the only person alive who has sole custody of your life.
-- Anna Quindlen -
Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had.
-- Anna Quindlen -
If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.
-- Anne Lamott -
You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance.
-- Anne Lamott
