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A cross section of shared quotes and mantras.
"What looks large from a distance, close up ain't never that big."
- Bob Dylan
"Curiosity is the key that unlocks the doors of knowledge, but be wary of the drafts that may follow."
– Gemini
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you."
- James Allen
"All limitations are self-imposed."
– Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Whatever is destined not to happen will not happen, try as you may. Whatever is destined to happen will happen, do what you may to prevent it. This is certain. The best course, therefore, is to remain silent.”
- Ramana Maharshi
"flying is easy, you just throw yourself at the ground and miss."
- Douglas Adams
“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.”
- Michaelangelo’s comment on the sculpture of David
"Worrying is like a rocking chair; it gives you something to do but gets you nowhere."
- Unknown
"At the end of it all, you are the ball, and the ball is you. "
- Life 101
“Although I failed and failed over again my failures never happened for the same reason”
- Honda
"Everybody has a strategy. Then you get punched in the face."
(Shared 3 times)- Mike Tyson
“Believe you can and you’re halfway there.”
(Shared twice)– Theodore Roosevelt
Some evils you have endured. Others you still have survived. But the worst evils of all were the ones that never arrived.
– Manny Lord
"The best way to predict the future is to create it! "
– Abraham Lincoln
"The weirder the going gets, the greater my courage gets."
- Bruce Suzuki
"Success is possible, even if you have to turn up the volume to drown out the haters."
- Sean Forbes
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
- Marcus Aurelius
"Erik is not truly dead. He lives on within the souls of those who choose to listen to the music of the night.”
- Gaston Leroux, The Phantom of the Opera
"There are the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out, just stay here. Unless you want to know how to conquer them."
- Bruce Suzuki
“A war cannot determine who is right, only who is left.”
- Unknown
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
(Shared twice)– Leonardo da Vinci
"You're braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
- Winnie the Pooh
"Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great."
– John D. Rockefeller
“The world is a mirror, forever reflecting what you are doing, within yourself.”
– Neville Goddard
“Be yourself, everyone else is already taken!”
- Oscar Wilde
"You've got to play the ball where it lie."
– Golf 101
"When the going gets weird the weird turn pro."
- Hunter S Thompson
"You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf."
– Jon Kabat-Zinn
"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."
– Charles R. Swindoll
"It isn’t the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it’s the pebble in your shoe."
– Muhammad Ali
"I've had many dreadful experiences in my life. Most of which have never happened."
- Old Norwegian Salt
"Sometimes I like to sit back and reminisce about the future!"
- Al's Father
“Yesterday’s home runs don’t win today’s games.”
– Babe Ruth
"The source of something is its point of origin. It's the beginning place, where something can be traced back to."
- Pastor George Pearsons
"Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out."
- Robert Collier
"Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
– Albert Einstein
"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"There are two kinds of people: Those who let things happen and those who make things happen."
- Lou Kane
"First there is a mountain. Then there is no mountain. Then there is. "
- Donovan (paraphrasing the Buddha)
"Instant karma's gonna hit you. Gonna hit you back off your feet. Better recognize your brothers. Every one you meet ."
-John Lennon
“The one who plants trees, knowing that he will never sit in their shade, has at least started to understand the meaning of life.”
– Rabindranath Tagore
“Those who dream of the banquet wake to lamentation and sorrow. Those who dream of lamentation and sorrow wake to join the hunt.”
- Chuangtse
"Be the change you wish to see in the world."
- Ghandi
"Worrying about the future is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum."
-Baz Luhrmann
"Whether you can or you can't you're right."
-Unknown
"You're always one decision away from a completely different life."
-Mel Robbins
“A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
- Bob Dylan