Words for the Mind

Quotes run by erica "Maybe our favourite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we’re quoting." -John Green

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Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Maya Angelou

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Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible!'

Audrey Hepburn

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We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

William Shakespeare

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I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

Jimmy Dean

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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

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The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched--they must be felt with the heart.

Hellen Keller

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Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

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I'm dating a woman now who, evidently, is unaware of it.

Garry Shandling

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My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.

Michelangelo

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The beginning is the most important part of the work.

Plato

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Love is a great beautifier.

Louisa May Alcott

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It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Voltaire

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I never learn anything talking.  I only learn things when I ask questions.

Lou Holtz

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Middle age is when a guy keeps turning off lights for economical rather than romantic reasons.

Lillian Gordy Carter

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Spring has returned.  The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Rainer Maria Rilke

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A good artist should be isolated.  If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

Orson Welles

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Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

Aphra Behn