George Bernard Shaw
Playwright, Critic
"You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'."
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Famous Inspirational
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Jim Rohn
Author, Motivational Speaker
"The difficulties you meet will resolve themselves as you advance. Proceed, and light will dawn, and shine with increasing clearness on your path."
Sylvia Plath
Poet, Novelist
"I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited."
Will Smith
Actor, Producer, Rapper
"I'm profoundly changed. There's a bittersweet emotion that I feel from playing this role. . . . I want the world to be different because I was here. However lofty or crazy or delusional that may sound, I want people's lives to be better because I was here."
Alice Walker
Novelist, Poet
"It's so clear that you have to cherish everyone. I think that's what I get from these older black women, that every soul is to be cherished, that every flower Is to bloom."
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"We become what we think about all day long. The qustion is, "What do you think about?""
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"Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
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"Every generation needs a new revolution."
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"It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
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"Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it - likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them."
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"Men do not stumble over mountains, but over mole hills."
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"So much has been given me I have no time to ponder over that which has been denied."
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"There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward."
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"If there is one thing I would banish from earth, it is fear. And the only way to do that is to see that there is nothing to fear - nothing in all of life to be afraid of."
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"When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade."
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"The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings."
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"Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory. That in art is highest which aims at this."
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"There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act."
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"Even though people may be well known they still hold in their hearts the emotions of a simple person for the moments that are the most important of those we know on earth - birth, marriage, death."
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"The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money."
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"I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
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"A merry heart goes all the way, - A sad one tires inan hour."
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