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Does it take the harsh light of disaster to show a person’s true nature? ↗

— Jean-Dominique Bauby

#heart-wrenching #inspirational #inspirational

To deal with things knowledge of things is needed. To deal with people, you need insight, sympathy. To deal with yourself, you need nothing. Be what you are--conscious being--and don't stray away from yourself. ↗

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#inspirational #self #inspirational

You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning. Like any other artist you must learn your craft—then you can add all the genius you like. ↗

— Phyllis A. Whitney

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and the cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#philosophy #inspirational

Look beyond yourself. ↗

— Michael J. Jackson

#life-lesson #inspirational

Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don't matter at all, because once you are Real you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand. ↗

— Margery Williams

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When it comes to individual destiny, there is no power greater in the universe than the conviction of the human soul to make a choice. ↗

— James Dashner

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Truth only means something when it's hard to admit!" - The Last Song ↗

— Nickolas Sparks

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Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well. ↗

— John Paul II

#life #talent #inspirational

People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is. ↗

— Chris Hankin

#inspirational #true #inspirational