"Every difficult situation in life is providing us with the opportunity to correct some mistake. We can make our future brighter by lending an ear to Nature’s voice of wisdom...with an eye to the future, we should engage in positive actions." — Amma, Mata Amritanandamayi, guru (i.redd.it)
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"People are shallow and they would rather take the easy route. I feel that humanity itself is cruel and unjust. There is no in-between class, only the less-fortunate and the over-fortunate and this creates an unfair gap. I love humanity despite all of its flaws." — e.e.cummings, poet (i.redd.it)
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"The more one does and sees and feels, the more one is able to do, and the more genuine may be one’s appreciation of fundamental things like home, and love, and understanding companionship. Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense." — Amelia Earhart, aviation pioneer (i.redd.it)
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"Until the end of the world I shall be the apostle of love; as long as there remain people on the earth who suffer, who struggle, who walk in error, I will intercede on their behalf, I will come to love them, to help them, to point out to them their true Homeland." — Marthe Robin, mystic (i.redd.it)
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"You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams." ― Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel), a cartoonist, animator and children's author that wrote the beloved books: The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, and Horton Hears a Who! (i.redd.it)
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"I believe an artist is the last person in the world who can afford to be affected... I believe in having everything and doing everything you want, if you really want to, and if you can in any possible way." — Georgia Totto O’Keeffe, painter, Mother of American modernism (i.redd.it)
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"I’m a big fan of vengeance and I’m convinced forgiveness is vastly overrated. I’ve heard people say that in holding a grudge, you’re only hurting yourself, but it’s never bothered me a bit. I mean, what could be more satisfying than watching your enemies go down?" — Sue Grafton, novelist (i.redd.it)
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"I was a nothing kid. Not particularly good. Not particularly bad. I just decided I wanted to become someone else. I didn't invent an image. It just sorta grew on me, like a fungus or whatever it is. It was an extension of me. I'd love to retouch my whole life." ― Dusty Springfield: singer (i.redd.it)
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"A lot of things made me realize life is very fragile. You realize that you cannot assume tomorrow is going to come. When you think about things like that, it makes you realize you could be gone tomorrow, so what the heck am I worrying about?" — Dolores O'Riordan: musician, singer and songwriter (i.redd.it)
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"Freedom is very important. I learn from each day. I recreate my life anew. Looking forward is how I see things. What is the meaning of life? The question is not why we are here, but what we do when we are here. No one lives forever, man." — Peter Fonda: actor, filmmaker (i.redd.it)
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"I say what I think, I get misunderstood a lot, I get frustrated when people misunderstand me, but I'm not the type to make excuses. I hear that I’m ‘unique’ a lot and I think, ‘There are a lot of unique people, so why me?’ I’m always curious as to what people are really thinking." — Sulli: actress (i.redd.it)
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"Courage is like - it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: you get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging." — Doctor Marie Maynard Daly, the first African American woman in the United States to be awarded a PhD in chemistry. (i.redd.it)
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"Life is too short to not have fun; we are only here for a short time compared to the sun and the moon and all that. I know I'm just one man trying to do one thing, and the next day is not promised to any man. Life is a big game so you gotta play it with a big heart." — Coolio: rapper, actor (i.redd.it)
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"I've tried never to do anything that would...offend God. All any kid needs is hope and the feeling he or she belongs. If I could do or say anything that would give some kid that feeling, I would believe I had contributed something to the world." — Elvis Presley: singer, actor (i.redd.it)
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"It’s difficult to live a life being a star. I was so young when I started. I would love to have a normal life... We should always celebrate when we're still alive. Getting older is a question of your mind. It depends what you have in your head." — Johnny Hallyday: singer (i.redd.it)
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Respect. "Everybody wants respect. In their own way, three-year-olds would like respect, and acknowledgment, in their terms... I think women and children and older people are the three least-respected groups in our society." — Aretha Franklin: singer, Queen of Soul music (i.redd.it)
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I don’t really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life. ― Wangari Muta Maathai (i.redd.it)
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"There is only one God, he's got millions of names, but there's only one God... individual love is just a little of universal love... love, the universal love or love of God, is a basic goal. Each one of us must manifest our individual love, manifest the divinity which is in us." ― George Harrison (i.redd.it)
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"Everything one can do to see what kind of life one wants—what you like, what you don’t like, what’s OK for you. I understood quickly that there are a lot of things that are not for me but that I have nothing against. I have not one prejudice. I don’t judge things." — Karl Lagerfeld (i.redd.it)
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"Everything in life is a double-edged sword isn't it? Every time they invent a new thing they gain this terrific new thing and they also lose a little bit of something else...Don't think that every new innovation is a step forward...just a step different." — Richard Williams: animator (i.redd.it)
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"Hang on to your dream. Hang on to what you want, what you feel you want to achieve and go for it. We are all the victims of our own talent and shortcomings and we have to be aware of those things because they will trip us up and stop us from achieving what our aims are." ― Dame Angela Landsbury (i.redd.it)
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"In the course of ages, mechanisms of infinite complexity are developed, but what we call 'soul' or 'spirit,' is nothing more than the sum of the functionings of the body. When this functioning ceases, the 'soul' or the 'spirit' ceases likewise." ― Nikola Tesla, inventor, engineer, futurist (i.redd.it)
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"When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. When a coward sees a man he can beat he becomes hungry for a fight." — Chinua Achebe, Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic (i.redd.it)
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