#inspiratio

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

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The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

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Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon. ↗

— Paul Brandt

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Es tan corto el amor, y es tan largo el olvido. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

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I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it at full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be ↗

— Roald Dahl

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If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#life-lessons #inspirational

90% of the game is half mental. ↗

— Yogi Berra

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And pity--people who inspire it in you are actually very powerful people. To get someone else to take care of you, to feel sorry for you--that takes a lot of strength, smarts, manipulation. Very powerful people. ↗

— Deb Caletti

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Just close your eyes and enjoy the roller coaster that is life. ↗

— Zayn Malik

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