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Quotations about Life

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The cost of a thing is the amount of what I call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Thoreau, Henry David
Look and you will find it-what is unsought will go undetected.
Sophocles

You are a child of the Universe, no less than the moon and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should.
Ehrmann, Max

Purpose serves as a principle around which to organize our lives.
Anonymous

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Schweitzer, Albert

The question is not whether we will die, but how we will live.
Borysenko, Joan

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Elliot, George

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Nonviolence

Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

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All Men Are Created Equal

Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: - ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
Martin Luther King Jr., Speech at Civil Rights March on Washington, August 28, 1963

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Inspirational quotes on life

Life is like a taxi. The meter just keeps a-ticking whether you are getting somewhere or just standing still. — Lou Erickso

Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds us down or polishes us up depends on us. — Thomas L. Holdcroft

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill

Live as if your were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. — Gandhiji

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies. — Ann Landers

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Quotations on Joy

On with the dance, let joy be unconfined is my motto, whether there’s any dance to dance or any joy to unconfine. ~ Mark Twain

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint paradise, then in you go.~ Nikos Kazantzakis

Cultivate more joy by arranging your life so that more joy will be likely.~ George Witkin

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies. ~ Johann von Goethe

It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Joy has nothing to do with material things, or with a man’s outward circumstances… A man living in the lap of luxury can be wretched, and a man in the depths of poverty can overflow with joy. ~ William Barclay

You have to sniff out joy. Keep your nose to the joy trail. ~ Buffy St. Marie

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful. ~ Sylvia Plath

Joy is not in things; it is in us. ~ Richard Wagner

He who kisses the joy as it flies. Lives in Eternity’s sunrise. ~ William Blake

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Quotations on Hard Work

Zig Ziglar: Quotations on Hard Work
You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.Gordie Howe: Quotations on Hard Work
You find that you have peace of mind and can enjoy yourself, get more sleep, rest when you know that it was a one hundred percent effort that you gave - win or lose.

Harry Firestone: Quotations on Hard Work
You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself.

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Health, Making a Difference, and Religion

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one.
Thomas Jefferson

I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.
Thomas Jefferson

The groundwork of all happiness is health — Leigh Hunt

A woman’s health is her capital — Harriet Beecher Stowe

The preservation of health is a duty few seem conscious that there is a such thing as physical morality. — Herbert Spencer

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.
Jane Goodall

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Thomas Jefferson’s values

Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it.
Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
Thomas Jefferson
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Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Thomas Jefferson

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Health quotations

   “I don’t eat junk foods and I don’t think junk thoughts.”
 Peace Pilgrim quotes (American Teacher and Spiritual leader and Peace Prophet, 1908-1981)
 
      “Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet”
 Jay Kordich quotes
 
      “Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in

them.”
 Sri Sathya Sai Baba quotes (Indian Spiritual leader, b.1926)
 
      “If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as

are the souls of those who live under tyranny.”
 Thomas Jefferson quotes (American 3rd US President (1801-09). Author of the Declaration of Independence. 1762-1826)
 
Health is worth more than learning.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to his cousin John Garland Jefferson, June 11, 1790
3rd president of US (1743 - 1826)

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Imagination, Hard Work, Effort quotes

Edwin H. Stuart: Effort Quotes
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages.

Dale Carnegie: Effort Quotes
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Harry Emerson Fosdick: Effort Quotes
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

Jim Rohn: Hard Work Quote
You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

William Arthur Ward: Optimism Quotes
If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

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