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A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. Henrik Ibsen
Community Ought Everyone Be Prepared Take Like Ship Helm Prepared
Be glad of life because it gives you the chance to love, to work, to play, and to look up at the stars. Henry Van Dyke
Life Work Love You Stars Gives Glad Look Because Up To Love Play Chance
Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other's good, and melt at other's woe. Homer
Time Good Relationship Heart Other Melt Learned Glow Woe Taught
Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not. James Russell Lowell
God Day Morning You Thank God Every Must Something Like Up Thank Get Done Whether Which
I love those who yearn for the impossible. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Inspirational Love Impossible Those Yearn Who
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You Man Words Mind Wish Know His Listen
The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts. John Keats
Thoughts Mind Nothing About Only Make Make Up Intellect Up Means Strengthening
Say not, 'I have found the truth,' but rather, 'I have found a truth.' Khalil Gibran
Truth Say Rather Found
Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge. Khalil Gibran
Knowledge Beginning Perplexity
When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. Mary Oliver
Life World Amazing My Life Say All My Life Married Taking Over Arms Amazement Want Bride
Whenever I want to laugh, I read a wonderful book, 'Children's Letters to God.' You can open it anywhere. One I read recently said, 'Dear God, thank you for the baby brother, but what I prayed for was a puppy.' Maya Angelou
God You Book Wonderful Thank You Baby Laugh Puppy Brother Open Read Said Dear Prayed Thank Whenever Children Want Anywhere Letters Recently
There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all. Ogden Nash
Happiness Achieve Way One-Way Only Only One Way Clear Clear Conscience Terrestrial Ball None Either Conscience
Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. Ogden Nash
Hope Home You Age Telephone Rings Sitting Middle Middle Age Saturday Saturday Night Night
He conquers who endures. Persius
Motivational He Endures Who Conquers
Love is the crowning grace of humanity, the holiest right of the soul, the golden link which binds us to duty and truth, the redeeming principle that chiefly reconciles the heart to life, and is prophetic of eternal good. Petrarch
Life Love Truth Good Soul Heart Love Is Humanity Grace Duty Prophetic Crowning Redeeming Principle Link Chiefly Golden Which Eternal Us Binds Right
This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess. Rainer Maria Rilke
Love Time Every Every Time Possess Those Miracle Give More Happens Really Who
In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Morning Man Walks Only His Legs Body Whole Evening
Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man Book Every Ancestors Mines Out House His Forests Stone Quotation Every Man
Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Silent Hear Gods May Us Let Us
There are times in life when, instead of complaining, you do something about your complaints. Rita Dove
Life You Complaining Complaints About Something Instead Times Your
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
Wisdom Poem Delight Begins Ends
Something opens our wings. Something makes boredom and hurt disappear. Someone fills the cup in front of us: We taste only sacredness. Rumi
Hurt Our Boredom Someone Something Only Wings Sacredness Disappear Opens Makes Cup Taste Front Us Fills
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it. Rumi
Dust Rug Someone Beats Blows Against
And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice. Rumi
Power Devil Our Spirit Angelic Objects Both Us Choice Awaken Present Desire
Feeling 'ugly' or 'unattractive' seeps into your life like poison, and it affects everything. Feeling worthless does the same. We internalise these limitations, and it takes an internal revolution to get rid of them. Rupi Kaur
Life Ugly Poison Feeling Revolution Everything Worthless Unattractive Takes Like Limitations Does Affects Get Same Them Your Rid Internal
There is no success without hardship. Sophocles
Success Without Hardship
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