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Inspiring Quotes on Life

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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself” – George Bernard Shaw

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take” – Wayne Gretzky

“If you don’t get everything you want, think of the things you don’t get that you don’t want” – Unknown

“Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you area vegetarian” – Dennis Wholey

“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be” – Marcel Pagnol

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was” – Richard L. Evans

“It’s not who you are that holds you back, it’s who you think you’re not”- Unknown

Inspiring Quotes on Enemies and Forgiveness

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“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” –Eleanor Roosevelt

“When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you” –African Proverb

“One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget” –Franklin P. Jones

“There are two types of people who will tell you that you cannot make a difference in this world: Those who are afraid to try themselves and Those who are afraid that you will succeed”- Ray Goforth

Forgive your enemies but never forget their names” – JFK

“Take care that no one hates you justly”- Pubilius Syrus

“To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it” – Confucius

“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned”- Buddha

Inspiring Quotes on Experience

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“In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these” – Paul Harvey

“No one can go back and make a brand new start, my friend, but anyone can start from here and make a brand new end” –Dan Zadra

“The difficulties of life are intended to make us better, not bitter”- Unknown

“Happiness is beneficial for the body but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind” – Marcel Proust

“Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him”- Aldous Huxley

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable”- Sydney J. Harris

“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better” — Samuel Beckett

“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere”- Agnes Repplier

“There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self” – Hindu proverb

Inspiring Quotes on Friendship

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“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out” – Walter Winchell

“I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar”- Unknown

“It’s sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew” – Henry Rollins

“Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer”-Ed Cunningham

“Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher” – Oprah Winfrey

“A friend is a person before whom I may think aloud” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

12 Inspiring Quotes from Thich Nhat Hanh

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“Freedom is not given to us by anyone; we have to cultivate it ourselves. It is a daily practice… No one can prevent you from being aware of each step you take or each breath in and breath out.”

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

“Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive—that you can touch the miracle of being alive—then that is a kind of enlightenment.”

“Many people are alive but don’t touch the miracle of being alive.”

“It is possible to live happily in the here and now. So many conditions of happiness are available—more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don’t have to run into the future in order to get more.”

“People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don’t suffer anymore.”

“Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes.”

“Life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now.”

“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?”

“To be loved means to be recognized as existing.”

“Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.”

“We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality.”