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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: action, change, inspirational, misattributed-to-gandhi, philosophy, wish
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy
    tags: change, tolstoy
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    Margaret Mead
    “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: activism, attributed-no-source, change, inspirational, life, philosophy, world
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    Nelson Mandela
    “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
    ― Nelson Mandela
    tags: change, education
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett
    tags: change, focus, grow, growth, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, leader, leaders, leadership, life, life-quotes, living, motivation, motivational, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, stay-focused, step-out-of-comfort-zone, transform
    6227 likes

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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: change, cleverness, misattributed, self, wisdom, world
    6300 likes

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  • #7
    Roy T. Bennett
    “Don't Just

    Don't just learn, experience.
    Don't just read, absorb.
    Don't just change, transform.
    Don't just relate, advocate.
    Don't just promise, prove.
    Don't just criticize, encourage.
    Don't just think, ponder.
    Don't just take, give.
    Don't just see, feel.
    Don’t just dream, do.
    Don't just hear, listen.
    Don't just talk, act.
    Don't just tell, show.
    Don't just exist, live.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: act, action, change, criticize, doing, dream, dreams, encouragement, experience, feeling, giving, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quote, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, learning, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-philosophy, life-quotes, listening, living, optimism, optimistic, ponder, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, thinking, transform
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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: change, deep-thoughts, thinking, world
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    Roy T. Bennett
    “Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who don’t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.”
    ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
    tags: appreciate, change, happiness, inspiration, inspirational, inspirational-attitude, inspirational-life, inspirational-quotes, inspire, inspiring, laugh, life, life-and-living, life-lessons, life-quotes, living, love, optimism, optimistic, positive, positive-affirmation, positive-life, positive-thinking, relationship, respect, smile, value
    6143 likes

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  • #10
    Raymond Chandler
    “To say goodbye is to die a little.”
    ― Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
    tags: change, life, parting, romantics
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  • #11
    Noam Chomsky
    “If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
    ― Noam Chomsky
    tags: belief, believe, despise, expression, freedom, freedom-of-expression
    2163 likes

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    Sigmund Freud
    “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.”
    ― Sigmund Freud
    tags: emotion, expression, freud, repression, self-expression
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    Sylvia Plath
    “Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: expression, plath, sylvia, writing
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  • #14
    Michel de Montaigne
    “I quote others only in order the better to express myself.”
    ― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
    tags: expression, humor, irony, quoting, truth
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    John Ruskin
    “To banish imperfection is to destroy expression, to check exertion, to paralyze vitality.”
    ― John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice
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  • #16
    Alphonse de Lamartine
    “Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.”
    ― Alphonse de Lamartine
    tags: expression, heart, inspirational, music, power-of-music
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    James Baldwin
    “All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
    ― James Baldwin
    tags: art, expression, james-baldwin, nausea, survival, vomit
    861 likes

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  • #18
    P.G. Wodehouse
    “He had the look of one who had drunk the cup of life and found a dead beetle at the bottom.”
    ― P.G. Wodehouse
    tags: disappointment, expression, face, life, satire
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  • #19
    Brenda Ueland
    “Everybody is talented because everybody who is human has something to express.”
    ― Brenda Ueland
    tags: creativity, expression, humanity, talent, writing
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  • #20
    Anne Sexton
    “I like you; your eyes are full of language."

    [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”
    ― Anne Sexton
    tags: expression, expressiveness, eyes, language
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  • #21
    John Green
    “Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.”
    ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
    tags: change, grief, loss, revelation
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  • #22
    Dan Pearce
    “I am not where I am because of luck. I am where I am because I took risks others weren’t willing to take. The world rewards the risk takers. It always has. It always will.”
    ― Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing: The Best of Year One
    tags: achievement, luck, risk-vs-reward, taking-risks
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  • #23
    “[Studies have found] that the typical entrepreneur earns less monetary compensation than her employee counterpart. Why then do so many entrepreneurs willingly engage in what is inherently risky activity? Because the additional psychic rewards—being one’s own boss, pride in self-accomplishment, and so forth—make the entrepreneurial endeavor worthwhile even if the entrepreneur does not gain the mega-prize. This, in turn, helps explain why entrepreneurs have a comparative advantage relative to large companies in attempting to discover and commercialize breakthrough innovations. Because a not insignificant portion of the entrepreneur’s “income” from her activity is psychic, the entrepreneur is the low-cost provider of radical innovation.”
    ― William J. Baumol, Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, and the Economics of Growth and Prosperity
    tags: entrepreneurship, innovation, risk-vs-reward
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  • #24
    Helen Keller
    “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
    ― Helen Keller, The Open Door
    tags: carpe-diem, challenges, enjoy-life, life, risk-taking
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    Criss Jami
    “To say that one waits a lifetime for his soulmate to come around is a paradox. People eventually get sick of waiting, take a chance on someone, and by the art of commitment become soulmates, which takes a lifetime to perfect.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: chances, commitment, courtship, dating, faithfulness, friendship, love, marriage, mates, patience, relationships, risk-taking, soulmates, waiting-for-true-love
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  • #26
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals Of Ralph Waldo Emerson, With Annotations - 1841-1844
    tags: life, risk-taking, timidity
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  • #27
    Nick Cave
    “But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals
    Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .”
    ― Nick Cave
    tags: cannibalism, cannibals, company, dining, eating, food, foolishness, risk, risk-taking
    267 likes

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  • #28
    Neil Gaiman
    “If you dare nothing,
    then when the day is over,
    nothing is all you will have gained.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
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    Aaron Lauritsen
    “There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”
    ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
    tags: 100-days-drive, 100daysdrive, acceptance, accomplish, ambition, author, awakening, be-happy, be-proud, believe, bestseller, bohemian, break-barriers, carmaker, chances, change, chase-dreams, cherish, coming-of-age, compassion, competition, confidence, conquer, conquer-fear, content, control-you-life, courage, crossroads, destiny, determination, dig-deep, don-t-give-up, don-t-worry-be-happy, dream-big, dreamer, empower, energy, enjoy-life, explore, faith, fearless, find-yourself, follow-your-dreams, follow-your-heart, follow-your-own-path, forgive, free, freedom, fresh-start, goal-setting, goals, goals-in-life, good-soul, gratitude, happiness, heal, hope, humanity, humility, inner-beauty, inner-strength, inspiration, journey, joy, judgement, laugh, learn, liberate, liberating, life, life-lessons, light, limitless, live-life-quotes, love-thy-neighbor, love-thyself, love-yourself, luck, memoir, never-quit, no-regrets, nomad, one-life, opportunity, parenthood, perspective, positive-thinking, power, pride, push-limits, reflections, resiliency, respect, risk-taking, road-trip, satisfaction, service-to-others, smile, soar, soul-food, spirituality, start-all-over, strength, struggle, success, thick-skin, think-outside-the-box, travel, values, wander, wanderlust, writer
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  • #30
    Sheryl Sandberg
    “If you're offered a seat on a rocket ship, don't ask what seat! Just get on.”
    ― Sheryl Sandberg
    tags: career-advice, inspirational, leadership, lean-in, motivational, risk-taking, women-in-business
    157 likes



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