Poems List

J. William Fulbright

We must dare to think

We must dare to think "unthinkable" thoughts. We must learn to explore all the options and possibilities that confront us in a complex and rapidly changing world. We must learn to welcome and not to fear the voices of dissent. We must dare to think about "unthinkable things" because when things become unthinkable, thinking stops and action becomes mindless.

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Andrew Soloman

I believe that its most

I believe that its most important function is in the formation of attachment. If we did not suffer enough loss to fear it, we could not love intensely.

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Steve Maraboli

You can still make today

You can still make today the day you change yourself. It's never too late!

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Chinese Proverb

In learning, age and youth

In learning, age and youth go for nothing; the best informed take the precedence.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Art is never finished, only

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

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George Bernard Shaw

I'd like to be the

I'd like to be the person I could have been but never was.

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Steve Maraboli

Accept yourself, your strengths, your

Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfill your purpose.”

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Chinese Proverb

Worldly fame and pleasure are

Worldly fame and pleasure are destructive to the virtue of the mind; anxious thoughts and apprehensions are injurious to the health of the body.

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Andrew Soloman

Don't think you are paying

Don't think you are paying me some kind of tribute if you let my death become the great event of your life. The best tribute you can pay me as a mother is to go on and have a good and fulfilling life. Enjoy what you have.

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Lloyd George

The finest eloquence is that

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which delays them.

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Steve Maraboli

You cannot just speak change,

You cannot just speak change, you have to LIVE change!"

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Cicero

Friendship throws a greater lustre

Friendship throws a greater lustre on prosperity, while it lightens adversity by sharing in its griefs and troubles.

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Cicero

By doubting we come at

By doubting we come at truth.

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Henry David Thoreau

Most people dread finding out

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

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Cicero

Can anything be more absurd

Can anything be more absurd than that the nearer we are to our journey?s end, we should lay in the more provision for it?

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Steve Maraboli

Never question the power of

Never question the power of one! Throughout history it has been the actions of only one person who has inspired the movement of change."

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George Eliot

It is never too late

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

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Origen

Conscience is the chamber of

Conscience is the chamber of justice.

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Coleridge

It cannot but be injurious

It cannot but be injurious to the human mind never to be called into effort: the habit of receiving pleasure without any exertion of thought, by the mere excitement of curiosity, and sensibility, may be justly ranked among the worst effects of habitual novel-reading.

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Steve Maraboli

A lack of clarity is

A lack of clarity is food for failure."

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John LeCarre

The only reward for love

The only reward for love is the experience of loving.

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Lee Iacocca

If you want to make

If you want to make good use of your time, you've got to know what's most important and then give it all you've got.

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Coleridge

Pleasure, most often delusive, may

Pleasure, most often delusive, may be born of delusion. Pleasure, herself a sorceress, may pitch her tents on enchanted ground. But happiness (or, to use a more accurate and comprehensive term, solid well-being) can be built on virtue alone, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

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Steve Maraboli

We only have now! Everything

We only have now! Everything else is either imagination or memory."

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