Lewis Grizzard
Author, Humorist
"I came from a big family. As a matter of fact, I never got to sleep alone until I was married."
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Inspiration
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Dalai Lama
Spiritual Leader
"Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace."
Albert Einstein
Physicist
"I once thought that if I could ask God one question, I would ask how the universe began, because once I knew that, all the rest is simply equations. But as I got older I became less concerned with how the universe began. Rather, I would want to know why he started the universe. For once I knew that answer, then I would know the purpose of my own life."
Lil Wayne
Rapper, Musician
"Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"The Warrior knows about the "waterfall effect"."
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"Make jokes. No stress. Love. Live Life. Proceed. Progress."
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"Somewhere along the way in your life, the world and its people will have a problem with you. That's their problem. Not yours."
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"Men build too many walls and not enough bridges."
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"We cannot do everything, and there is a sense of liberation in realizing that. This enables us to do something, and to do it very well. It may be incomplete, but it is a beginning, a step along the way, an opportunity for the Lord's grace to enter and do the rest."
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"I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of leadership are universal and are often about finding ways of encouraging people to combine their efforts, their talents, their insights, their enthusiasm and their inspiration to work together."
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"I don't need it to be easy. I just want it to be worth it."
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"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
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"Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
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"Don't get upset with your imperfections. It's a great mistake because it leads nowhere - to get angry because you are angry, upset at being upset, depressed at being depressed, disappointed because you are disappointed. So don't fool yourself. Simply surrender to the Power of God's Love, which is always greater than our weakness."
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"Mountaintops are for views and inspiration, but fruit is grown in the valleys."
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"The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble."
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"We have a system of justice in [the US] that treats you much better if you're rich and guilty than if you're poor and innocent. Wealth, not culpability, shapes outcomes."
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"Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority."
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"As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives."
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"Do everything calmly and peacefully. Do as much as you can as well as you can. Strive to see God in all things without exception, and consent to His will joyously. Do everything for God, uniting yourself to him in word and deed. Walk very simply with the Cross of the Lord and be at peace with yourself."
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"The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
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"If you're absent during my struggle, don't expect to be present during my success."
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"The highest goal of music is to connect one's soul to their Divine Nature, not entertainment"
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"Christ has no body now but mine. He prays in me, works in me, looks through my eyes, speaks through my words, works through my hands, walks with my feet and loves with my heart."
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"We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God."
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