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If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspirational #luck #quote #the-alchemist #inspirational

The world may indeed be evil and ugly, I thought defiantly, it may be soiled with sin, but I also knew that when a man lifts his soul up to the vaults of heaven, reaching seraphic heights with the power of his voice, he becomes an eagle soaring, an instrument of the Holy Ghost ↗

— Adriana Koulias

#inspirational #spiritlove #temple-of-the-grail #inspirational

inspiration is not a thing, its every thing, open your eyes and inspiration is everywhere. ↗

— L.L. Caulton

#inspiration #new #quote #inspirational

Mamma says gratitude helps us to see what is there instead of what isn't. ↗

— Annette Bridges

#inspirational #thankful #inspirational

I, also, decided to get rid of the need of approval. That is a strong addiction, the need of approval, isn't it? That---I'm on the patch right now, actually. It releases small doses of approval until I no longer crave it. And, I'm going to rip it off! ↗

— Ellen DeGeneres The Beginning

#inspirational #therapy #inspirational

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. ↗

— J. L. Austin

#come #commonly #done #going #happen

Breaking childhood teachings is never easy, and in essence, they are like white noise that can sometimes stop us from listening to ourselves, or having to listen to ourselves. ↗

— Ramani Durvasula

#fear #inspirational #inspirational

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock. ↗

— Chris Hedges

#fear #secrecy #death

Things fall apart. But things don't just fall apart. People break them. ↗

— Robin Wasserman

#break #fall #inspirational #things #inspirational

. . . never seen him inspired by any more dangerous stimulant than strong coffee, of which he was very fond & of which [he] drank freely. MacIntosh says that the measure of a man's brain is the amount of coffee he can drink with impunity. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN (POE'S FIANCÉE) TO JOHN INGRAM DECEMBER 13, 1874 ↗

— Andrew Barger

#coffee-with-poe-quotes #poe-quotes #sarah-helen-whitman-quotes #inspirational