Wisdom Quotes

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Quotations for a variety of occasions: shed light, help keep perspective, inspire, energize, or just make me think. Sorted by topic and author.

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder ...

- Henry David Thoreau

I will prepare and someday my chance will come.

- Abraham Lincoln

No one can look at a pine tree in winter without knowing that spring will come again in due time.

- Frank Bolles

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

- Charles Caleb Colson

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

- Napoleon Hill

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you are ready or not, to put this plan into action.

- Napoleon Hill

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

- Michael Korda

Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness. The moment we believe something is wrong, our world shrinks and we lose ourselves in the effort to combat the pain.

- Tara Brach

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One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

- Faye Wattleton

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The spiritual path is not a solo endeavor. In fact, the very notion of a self who is trying to free her/himself is a delusion. We are in it together and the company of spiritual friends helps us realize our interconnectedness.

- Tara Brach

It's time for us to turn to each other, not on each other.

- Jesse Jackson

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

- Marshall Ferdinand Foch

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It is never too late to be who you might have been.

- George Eliot

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids -- and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

- Ralph Ellison

Stand for something or you will fall for anything. Today's mighty oak is yesterday's nut that held its ground.

- Rosa Parks

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