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#1

“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”
― Sir Walter Scott

tags: education, homeschool

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#2

“Thinking is like exercise, it requires consistency and rigor. Like barbells in a weightlifting room, the classics force us to either put them down or exert our minds. They require us to think.”
― Oliver Van DeMille, A Thomas Jefferson Education: Teaching a Generation of Leaders for the Twenty-First Century

tags: barbells, exercise, thinking, weight-lifting

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#3

“No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.”
― C.S. Lewis

tags: age, books, re-reading, reading

6162 likes

#4

“Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.”
― Sheri L. Dew

tags: adversity, experience

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#5

“When things get too complicated, it sometimes makes sense to stop and wonder: Have I asked the right question?”
― Enrico Bombieri

tags: ideas, inventions, math, perspective, science

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#6

“Happiness is the object and design of our existence; and will be the end thereof, if we pursue the path that leads to it; and this path is virtue, uprightness, faithfulness, holiness, and keeping all the commandments of God.”
― Joseph Smith

tags: god, happiness, inspirational, mormonism, religion, virtue

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#7

“Perhaps it is our imperfections that make us so perfect for one another!”
― Douglas McGrath

tags: adaptation, emma, movie-quote, mr-knightley

1875 likes

#8

“We learn to do by doing.”
― Spencer W. Kimball

tags: learning

86 likes

#9

“Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.”
― Corrie Ten Boom

tags: prayer

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#10

“Our fate is shaped from within ourselves outward, never from without inward.”
― Jacques Lusseyran

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#11

“Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.”
― Wendy Shalit, A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue

tags: beautiful, femininity, modesty, women

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#12

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, 'Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?' Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
― Marianne Williamson, A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"

tags: akeelah, fear, inspirational

17957 likes

#13

“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity; it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.”
― Yann Martel, Life of Pi

tags: life-of-pi

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#14

“Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

tags: friendship

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#15

“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within.”
― Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

tags: analogy, inner-beauty, life

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#16

“Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is not found only at the end of the rainbow. Love is at the beginning also, and from it springs the beauty that arched across the sky on a stormy day. Love is the security for which children weep, the yearning of youth, the adhesive that binds marriage, and the lubricant that prevents devastating friction in the home; it is the peace of old age, the sunlight of hope shining through death. How rich are those who enjoy it in their associations with family, friends, and neighbors! Love, like faith, is a gift of God. It is also the most enduring and most powerful virtue.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something: Ten Neglected Virtues That Will Heal Our Hearts and Homes

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#17

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”
― Roald Dahl, The Twits

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#18

“How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.”
― William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

tags: good-deeds, goodness, humanity, inspirational, life, light, world

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#19

“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

The waves beside them danced; but they
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed--and gazed--but little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:

For oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.”
― William Wordsworth, I Wander'd Lonely as a Cloud

tags: daffodils, peace, poetry, serenity

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#20

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
― Bernard M. Baruch

tags: ataraxy, be-yourself, confidence, fitting-in, individuality, misattributed-dr-seuss, those-who-matter

129908 likes

#21

“Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of all the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.”
― Giorgos Seferis

tags: humour, influence

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#22

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”
― LM Montgomery

tags: humour

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#23

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”
― Mother Theresa

tags: charity, giving, love

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#24

“Over the years, I have come to realize that the greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity, or power, but self-rejection. Success, popularity, and power can indeed present a great temptation, but their seductive quality often comes from the way they are part of the much larger temptation to self-rejection. When we have come to believe in the voices that call us worthless and unlovable, then success, popularity, and power are easily perceived as attractive solutions. The real trap, however, is self-rejection. As soon as someone accuses me or criticizes me, as soon as I am rejected, left alone, or abandoned, I find myself thinking, "Well, that proves once again that I am a nobody." ... [My dark side says,] I am no good... I deserve to be pushed aside, forgotten, rejected, and abandoned. Self-rejection is the greatest enemy of the spiritual life because it contradicts the sacred voice that calls us the "Beloved." Being the Beloved constitutes the core truth of our existence.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

tags: beloved, christianity, faith, feelings, identity, rejection, self, spiritual-life, spiritual-warfare, success, temptation, truth

1218 likes

#25

“Hold fast to dreams,
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird,
That cannot fly.”
― Langston Hughes

tags: dreams, hope, inspiration, knowledge, wisdom

11245 likes

#26

“He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright”
― Blaise Pascal

tags: duty, god, providence, truth

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#27

“Certainly it is true that we need to maintain independence in certain areas of life. We must not be passive but active agents in this strenuous, challenging world. At the same time, we must not make a fetish out of our self-sufficiency. It is normal and wise for us to rely at moments upon the insights, the courage, and the consolation which our human brothers can give us , knowing full well that they in turn sill rely upon our gifts and strength on other critical occasions. Let us not be too proud to admit weakness at moments and to absorb strength from others in our day of need. The ruthless repression of our common human problems and fears can only make us hard or ill; the sharing of these problems with our human comrades alone can save us from the sin of pride, the idolatry of self-sufficiency.”
― Joshua Loth Liebman

tags: interdependence, self-sufficiency

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#28

“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies

tags: architecture, books, perspective, reading, rereading

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#29

“Pure truth is always present, but it is each soul’s choice to decide when he or she wants it to be revealed.”
― Molly Friedenfeld, The Book of Simple Human Truths

tags: honor, inspiration, inspirational-quotes, integrity, joy, life-purpose, love, mission, peace, purpose, soul, truth, wisdom

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#30

“Mothers who know do less. They permit less of what will not bear good fruit eternally. They allow less media in their homes, less distraction, less activity that draws their children away from their home. Mothers who know are willing to live on less and consume less of the world’s goods in order to spend more time with their children—more time eating together, more time working together, more time reading together, more time talking, laughing, singing, and exemplifying. These mothers choose carefully and do not try to choose it all.”
― Julie B. Beck

tags: motherhood, parenting

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