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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