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  • #1
    “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.”
    ― John A. Shedd
    tags: courage, inspirational, misattributed-grace-hopper, misattributed-william-g-t-shedd, risk
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    Max Ehrmann
    “Avoid loud and aggressive persons,
    they are vexations to the spirit.”
    ― Max Ehrmann, Desiderata: A Poem for a Way of Life
    tags: inspirational, philosophical
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  • #3
    Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
    “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
    ― Theodore Roosevelt
    tags: inspirational
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  • #4
    “You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.”
    ― James R. Sherman, Rejection
    tags: inspirational, misattributed-carl-bard, misattributed-dan-zadra, misattributed-zig-ziglar
    402 likes

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  • #5
    Thomas A. Edison
    “I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.”
    ― Thomas A. Edison
    tags: edison, failure, inspirational, paraphrased
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  • #6
    Jonathan Swift
    “May you live every day of your life.”
    ― Jonathan Swift
    tags: inspirational, life, philosophy, wisdom
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  • #7
    Jane Austen
    “Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: comfort, inspirational, jane-austen, pride-and-prejudice
    333 likes

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  • #8
    Susan Jeffers
    “Feel the fear and do it anyway!”
    ― Susan Jeffers, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
    tags: bravery, inspirational
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  • #9
    “God will answer you prayers better than you think. Of course, one will not always get exactly what he has asked for....We all have sorrows and disappointments, but one must never forget that, if commended to God, they will issue in good....His own solution is far better than any we could conceive.”
    ― Fanny J. Crosby
    tags: christian, inspirational, prayer, spiritual
    153 likes

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  • #10
    Henry Ford
    “Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
    ― Henry Ford
    tags: black, customer, humor, model-t
    265 likes

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  • #11
    Harriet Tubman
    “Twant me, 'twas the Lord. I always told him, 'I trust to you. I don't know where to go or what to do, but I expect you to lead me,' and He always did.”
    ― Harriet Tubman
    tags: inspirational
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  • #12
    Maya Angelou
    “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.”
    ― Maya Angelou, Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey Now
    tags: 1993, inspirational, reassurance, reassuring, respite, soothing
    528 likes

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  • #13
    William Wordsworth
    “My heart leaps up when I behold
    A rainbow in the sky:
    So was it when my life began;
    So is it now I am a man;”
    ― William Wordsworth
    tags: poetry
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  • #14
    Eugene H. Peterson
    “When we sin and mess up our lives, we find that God doesn't go off and leave us- he enters into our trouble and saves us.”
    ― Eugene Peterson
    tags: inspirational
    74 likes

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  • #15
    Elisabeth Elliot
    “Do The Next Thing..”
    ― Elisabeth Elliot
    tags: inspirational
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  • #16
    Oprah Winfrey
    “I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.”
    ― Oprah Winfrey
    tags: inspirational
    866 likes

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  • #17
    Neale Donald Walsch
    “What you resist, persists”
    ― Neale Donald Walsh
    tags: inspirational
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  • #18
    Gary Player
    “Simply by making the effort to start something, you will be miles ahead of almost everyone else.”
    ― Gary Player
    tags: inspirational
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  • #19
    Max Lucado
    “You are the only you God made... God made you and broke the mold.”
    ― Max Lucado, Cure for the Common Life: Living in Your Sweet Spot
    tags: inspiration, self-image, uniqueness
    772 likes

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  • #20
    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
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  • #21
    Dan Millman
    “The journey is what brings us happiness not the destination.”
    ― Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
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  • #22
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: attributed-no-source, human-nature, humor, infinity, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe
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  • #23
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    “When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.”
    ― Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • #24
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
    “Not how the world is, but that it is, is the mystery.”
    ― Ludwig Wittgenstein
    tags: philosophy
    243 likes



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