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May these quotes about Michelangelo inspire and motivate you.
If a man is called to be a street sweeper,
he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted,
or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.
He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts
of heaven and earth will pause to say,
here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
You are the Michelangelo of your own life.
The David that you are sculpting is you.
And you do it with your thoughts.
- Joe Vitale
Life is without meaning.
You bring the meaning to it.
The meaning of life is
whatever you ascribe it to be.
Being alive is the meaning.
- Joseph Campbell
Don't Take Anything Personally.
Nothing others do is because of you.
- Miguel Angel Ruiz (don Miguel Ruiz)
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
To live is to choose. But to choose well,
you must know who you are and what you stand for,
where you want to go and why you want to get there.
- Kofi Annan
The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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Remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
- Confucius
Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.
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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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Pull the string, and it will follow wherever you wish.
Push it, and it will go nowhere at all.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Even the truth, when believed, is a lie.
You must experience the truth, not believe it.
- Werner Erhard
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced.
Live your life so that when you die,
the world cries and you rejoice.
- Indian Proverb
The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white.
Neither need you do anything but be yourself.
- Lao Tzu
You are never too old to set another goal
or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis
There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it
and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.
- Henry David Thoreau
Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus
Unless you try to do something
beyond what you have already mastered,
you will never grow.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The mind is everything.
What you think you become.
- The Buddha
The more you know the less you feel.
- Bono
You have to learn the rules of the game.
And then you have to play better than anyone else.
- Albert Einstein
If you love what you are doing, you ARE a success.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you have health, you probably will be happy,
and if you have health and happiness,
you have all the wealth you need, even if it is not all you want.
- Elbert Hubbard
Wonder what opportunities you pass, unwittingly,
because your hands are so busy clasping
what you think you have always known.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
WHY do you care what THEY think?
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If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
Whenever you're in conflict with someone,
there is one factor that can make the difference
between damaging your relationship and deepening it.
That factor is attitude.
- William James
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
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To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.
- Lewis Carroll
The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard
How do you want to be remembered?
Live life full out - Begin today.
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It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
You can't be everything to everyone.
- Bill Cosby
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
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You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz
Know that time, like life itself, has no inherent meaning.
You give your own meaning to time, as to life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dreams,
you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- old proverb often attributed to David Lloyd George
When you are impeccable, you take
responsibility for your actions,
but you do not judge or blame yourself.
- don Miguel Ruiz
Put some distance between yourself
and whatever is concerning you.
Distance in space or time
always creates a new perspective.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
When you feel the need to hurry,
remember that everything in life is a CHOICE.
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You have a choice about the perspective you take on life.
See tragedy, and the world is tragic -
see beauty, and the world is beautiful.
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If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
If you shut the door to all errors,
truth will be shut out.
- Rabindranath Tagore
There is no passion to be found playing small -
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
- Nelson Mandela
You do ill if you praise, but worse
if you censure, what you do not understand.
- Leonardo da Vinci
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
For everything you have missed,
you have gained something else.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can easily judge the character of others
by how they treat those who can
do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm S. Forbes
Half of everything you were ever taught is wrong;
the question is which half.
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May you live all the days of your life.
- Jonathan Swift
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
- Publilius Syrus
Live boldly. Laugh Loudly. Love Truly.
Play as often as you can
Work as smart as you are able.
Share your heart as deeply as you can reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
You have to know how to accept rejection, and reject acceptance.
- Ray Bradbury
To dream of the person you would like to be
is to waste the person you are.
- Anonymous
Face the facts of being what you are,
for that is what changes what you are.
- Soren Kierkegaard
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
May you never forget what is worth remembering,
or remember what is best forgotten.
- Anonymous
Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Celebrate what you want to see more of.
- Tom Peters
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei
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