Quotes for Life

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
E.E. CUMMINGS

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Fall seven times, stand up eight.
JAPANESE PROVERB

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If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step. you know it is not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.
JOSEPH CAMPBELL

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.
ALICE WALKER

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It may be that when we no longer know what to do
we have come to our real work.
And that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
The mind that is not baffled is not employed.
The impeded stream is the one that sings.
WENDELL BERRY

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None but ourselves can free our own mind.
BOB MARLEY

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There is a vitality,
a life force,
a quickening
that is translated through you into action,
and because there is only one of you in all time,
this expression is unique.
And If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost.
The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine
how good it is
nor how valuable it is
nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly
to keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work.
You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate YOU.
Keep the channel open...
No artist is pleased...
There is no satisfaction whatever at anytime
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction
a blessed unrest that keeps us marching
and makes "us" MORE alive than the others.
MARTHA GRAHAM (A Letter to Agnes De Mille)

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
ALBERT EINSTEIN

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Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better.
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.

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When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bounds. Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.
PATANJALI

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"Let's drink that every nation
Will live to see that bright day's birth
When "neath" the sun's rotation
Dissent is banished from the earth.
All will be
kinsfolk free.
DR. FRANCE PRESEREN

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Load the ship and set out. Now one knows for certain whether the vessel will sink or reach the harbour. Cautious people say "I'll do nothing until I'm sure." Merchants know better. If you do nothing you lose. Don't be one of those merchants who won't risk the ocean.
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Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to find all barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
RUMI MEVLANA

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When we recognise that unity of all living things, then at once arises the question - how can we support this life of ours with least injury to the lives around us; how can we prevent our own life adding to the suffering of the world in which we live?
ANNIE BESANT

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I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment.
DALAI LAMA

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Depression is not a sign of weakness, it is just a sign that we have been strong for too long.
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