Inspirational Life quotes
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"He had an uncommon fondness for cats. As an old man summering in New Hampshire, Twain even rented kittens from a nearby farm to keep him company until he returned home. "If man could be crossed with the cat," said Twain, "it would improve the man, but it would deteriorate the cat." There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends."
"The readiness is all."
"Every day of my life, I'm trying to find a different way to get better."
"In your hands you hold the seeds of failure or the potential for greatness. Your hands are capable, but they must be used and for the right things to reap the rewards you are capable of attaining. The choice is yours."
"When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible."
"You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen."
"The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live."
"Life on the planet is born of woman."
"There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood."
"You get your confidence and intuition back by trusting yourself, by being militantly on your own side. ... Don't look at your feet to see if you are doing it right. Just dance."
"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."
"Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued." "It is not living that matters, but living rightly. The unexamined life is not worth living."
"The best of times is now."
"Whatever anybody says, the most important thing in life is to be happy."
"Don't get it right, just get it written."
"The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it."
"All generalizations are false, including this one."
"Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author."
"All my growth and development led me to believe that if you really do the right thing, and if you play by the rules, and if you?ve got good enough, solid judgment and common sense, that you?re going to be able to do whatever you want to do with your life."
"Always remember: Life is for enjoying."
