Quotable Quotes And Sayings To Cite And Think About

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“If your actions create a legacy that inspires others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, then you are an excellent leader.”
– Dollly Parton

“Your paradigm is so intrinsic to your mental process that you are hardly aware of its existence, until you try to communicate with someone with a different paradigm.”
– Donella Meadows

“What we choose changes us, Who we love transforms us. How we create reshapes us. What we do remakes up.”
– Dr. Eugene Callender

“Cease trying to work everything out with our minds. It will get you nowhere. Live by intuition and inspiration and let your whole life be revelation.”
– Eileen Caddy

“There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.”
– Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

“Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm old mindsets, rigid categories. Artists, who live in the same world as the rest of us, steer clear of these mindsets to make us see things anew.”
– Ellen J. Langer

“Play is one of the highest spiritual forms of being. When we’re in that state, we get lost in ourselves, which allows the mind to receive the message of the spirit.”
– Ellie Katz

“The years teach much that the days never know.”
– Emerson

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
– Erich Fromm

“I have found power in the mysteries of thought.”
– Euripides

“Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Events appear sad, pleasant, or painful, not because they are so in reality, but because we believe them to be so and the light in which we look at them depends upon our own judgement.”
– Francesco Petrarca

“This is the true joy in life: the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‘brief candle’ to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold for moment, and I want to make it burn brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?”
– George Elliot

“During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell

“If you bring forth what is within you, it will heal you. And if you do not bring forth what is within you, it will destroy you.”
– Gospel of St. Thomas

“When we are motivated by goals that have deep meaning, by dreams that need completion, by pure love that needs expressing, then we truly live life.”
– Greg Anderson

“It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the “I Am,” our real presence, can awaken.”
– Gurdjieff

“The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.”
– Harold Taylor

“Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller

“Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession – their ignorance.”
– Hendrik Van Loon

“To exist to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”
– Henri Bergson

“If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.”
– Henry David

“I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stats and books; I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me.”
– Herman Hesse

“You may have a barrelful of luck tomorrow. If so – find. But don’t expect it, and most of all, don’t sit around waiting for it.”
– Herman W. Lay

“When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless and intelligence cannot be applied.”
– Herophilus

“If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now — when?”
– Hillel

“Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.”
– Immanuel Kant

“When we’re trying to decide whether a leader is a good leader or a bad one, the question to ask is: ‘Is he with the Ten Commandments or is he against them?’ Then you can determine if the leader is a true messiah or another Stalin.’
– Isaac Bashevis Singer

“To understand is to perceive patterns.”
– Isaiah Berlin

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