Discover 2524 inspiring inspiration quotes to motivate and guide you on your journey. (Page 70 of 85)
"Whenever you feel alone, just remember that those kings will always be there to guide you. And so will I."
- Mufasa
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
- Emily Dickinson
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"In my experience poetry speaks to you either at first sight or not at all. A flash of revelation and a flash of response. Like lightning. Like falling in love."
- J.M. Coetzee
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"If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."
- David Carradine
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"You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you."
- Joseph Joubert
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"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity."
- William Wordsworth
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"Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toe nails twinkle, makes you want to do this or that or nothing, makes you know that you are alone in the unknown world, that your bliss and suffering is forever shared and forever all your own."
- Dylan Thomas
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"No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit."
- Helen Keller
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"I want people like me to see that they shouldn’t let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness—I want to turn my disability into ability."
- Susan Boyle
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"We must be treated as equals—and communication is the way we can bring this about."
- Louis Braille
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"Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry."
- Cassandra Clare
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"You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting – over and over announcing your place in the family of things."
- Mary Oliver
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"If you are a dreamer come in If you are a dreamer a wisher a liar A hoper a pray-er a magic-bean-buyer If youre a pretender com sit by my fire For we have some flax golden tales to spin Come in! Come in!"
- Shel Silverstein
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"She seems so cool, so focused, so quiet, yet her eyes remain fixed upon the horizon. You think you know all there is to know about her immediately upon meeting her, but everything you think you know is wrong. Passion flows through her like a river of blood. She only looked away for a moment, and the mask slipped, and you fell. All your tomorrows start here."
- Neil Gaiman
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"We have the can-do factor, and us doing what we do inspires people to just try that little bit harder, whether they are able-bodied or disabled."
- Lee Pearson
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"The best way to enhance freedom in other lands is to demonstrate here that our democratic system is worthy of emulation."
- Jimmy Carter
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"The more I study it [the Constitution], the more I have come to admire it, realizing that no other document devised by the hand of man ever brought so much progress and happiness to humanity."
- Calvin Coolidge
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"Give me the splendid, silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling."
- Walt Whitman
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"The glorious lamp of the heaven, the sun"
- Robert Herrick
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"Just as a bird needs wings to fly, a human spirit needs freedom to soar."
- Vandana Shukla
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"Birds are magical. Their flight alone can arouse a clever thought."
- Michael Bassey Johnson
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"Birds will give you a window, if you allow them. They will show you secrets from another world– fresh vision that, though it is avian, can accompany you home and alter your life."
- Lyanda Lynn Haupt
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""Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art.""
- William Wordsworth
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"Democracy does not give the people the most skillful government, but it produces what the ablest governments are frequently unable to create: namely, an all-pervading and restless activity, a superabundant force, and an energy which is inseparable from it and which may, however unfavorable circumstances may be, produce wonders."
- Alexis de Tocqueville
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"A bird does not sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."
- Maya Angelou
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""Have you ever observed a humming-bird moving about in an aerial dance among the flowers -- a living prismatic gem ... it is a creature of such fairy-like loveliness as to mock all description.""
- Henry van Dyke
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""The very idea of a bird is a symbol and a suggestion to the poet. A bird seems to be at the top of the scale, so vehement and intense his life ... The beautiful vagabonds, endowed with every grace, masters of all climes, and knowing no bounds—how many human aspirations are realized in their free, holiday-lives—and how many suggestions to the poet in their flight and song!""
- Langston Hughes
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"आए हो निभाने को जब किरदार जमीन पर, कुछ ऐसा कर चलो कि जमाना मिसाल दे ।"
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"Birds are the messengers of nature, reminding us to embrace our freedom and soar to new heights."
- Unknown
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"Feathered ambassadors, nature's messengers true."
- Unknown
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