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Uplifting quotes & Inspiring Thoughts

Eugene March 22nd, 2014

I hope you can help me add uplifting and inspiring quotes here.

Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today.
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

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Bugmommy1350 December 11th, 2019

...... Not all who wander are lost.

SarKazm December 11th, 2019

You are someone's reason to smile so keep on smiling because it is beautiful! 😁

Adelaide765 December 12th, 2019

* You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light within you. - (I don't know who :o)

* They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds. (Don't know either :/ - on facebook)

Important one : Being considered crazy by people who are still victims of a toxic cultural conditioning is a compliment. (don't know who :/)

*As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Thoreau

*Never give anyone the power to make you submit or rebel. - M. Rosenberg

*There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at the typewriter and bleed. - Thoreau

*There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion. -E. A. Poe

*I love you, and that's the beginning and the end of everything. - Fitzgerald

*To gain your own voice, you have to forget about having it heard. - A. Ginsberg

*I felt free and therefore I was free. - Jack Kerouac

*You can't live in this world but there's nowhere else to go. - TDB

*You're mad. Bonkers. Off your head...But I'll tell you a secret...All the best people are. - L. Caroll, Alice in Wonderland

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SweetPearCrumble December 18th, 2019

@Adelaide765

These are amazing. I like them all.

Especially "They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds." -unknown

Gia2121 February 21st, 2020

Love them !!!!

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Adelaide765 December 12th, 2019

And those people who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. - Nietzche

SummerNightDream December 15th, 2019

Sharing my favorite poem which inspires me.

STILL I RISE

By Maya Angelou

You may write me down in history

With your bitter, twisted lies,

You may trod me in the very dirt

But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?

Why are you beset with gloom?

Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,

With the certainty of tides,

Just like hopes springing high,

Still I'll rise.

Did you want to see me broken?

Bowed head and lowered eyes?

Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

Weakened by my soulful cries?

Does my haughtiness offend you?

Don't you take it awful hard

Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

Diggin in my own backyard.

You may shoot me with your words,

You may cut me with your eyes,

You may kill me with your hatefulness,

But still, like air, Ill rise.

Does my sexiness upset you?

Does it come as a surprise

That I dance like I've got diamonds

At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of historys shame

I rise

Up from a past thats rooted in pain

I rise

I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

I rise

Into a daybreak thats wondrously clear

I rise

Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise

I rise

I rise.

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Oracle12 December 21st, 2019

@SummerNightDream

I really like this poem. When first time I read it, it's gave me courage and strength.

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SummerNightDream December 21st, 2019

@Oracle12

I am glad you like it. It reminds me of things we are capable of doing if we believe in ourselves.

May you be blessed.

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Flowingstreams January 2nd, 2020

@SummerNightDream

I wanted to thanks you so much for posting this poem too! It's one of my favorites as well! Just what I needed to read today!

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SummerNightDream January 2nd, 2020

@Flowingstreams

You're welcome. 😊

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miasohee December 18th, 2019

ten years from now make sure you can say you chose your life and didnt settle for it

fight for the fairy tale it does exist

You," he said, "are a terribly real thing in a terribly false world, and that, I believe, is why you are in so much pain.

Breadandbutterpudding December 18th, 2019

Great things never come from comfort zones.

Dksqueen December 18th, 2019

Don't cry because it's finished smiled because it took place and just because it ended doesn't mean it wasn't good enough some u can't write all the story on one leaf u need to turn over😄

Dksqueen

CanaryInTheClouds December 21st, 2019

"It isn't about what you have. It's about what you do with what you have."

"It isn't about what you've got. It's about what you do with what you've got."

"Do not fear mistakes. There are none."

"Rest if you must, but don't you quit!"

WilliamJ1999 December 25th, 2019

All those moments will be lost in time. Like tears in the rain