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Inspiring Quotes

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

-Mohandas Gandhi

"Wealth is defined as the number of things we can do without."

-Emerson

"The key to a good life is not having what you want, but, wanting what you have."

-Steve Van Matre

"The real measure of our wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money."

-John Henry Jewett

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car, and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it."

-Columnist Ellen Goodman

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

-Margaret Mead

"Riches prick us with a thousand troubles in getting them, as many cares in preserving them, and yet more anxiety in spending them, and with grief in losing them."

-Saint Francis

"Your vision will become clear only when You can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

-Carl Jung

"Don't worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs are people who have come alive."

- Howard Thurman

"When ideas go unexamined and unchallenged for along enough time, certain things happen. They become mythological, and they become very, very powerful. They create conformity. They intimidate."

-E.L. Doctorow

"What is it that you want to do with the one wild and precious thing called YOUR LIFE?"

-Mary Oliver

“For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press 3”

- Alice Kahn

“I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.”

-Bjarne Stroustrup

“Before we work on artificial intelligence, why don’t we do something about natural stupidity?”

-Steve Polyak

“I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.”

-Emo Philips

“Sometimes snakes can’t slough. They can’t burst their old skin. Then they go sick and die inside the old skin, and nobody ever sees the new pattern. It needs a real desperate recklessness to burst your old skin at last. You simply don’t care what happens to you, if you rip yourself in two, so long as you do get out.”

-D.H. Lawrence

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.”

-George Bernard Shaw

“It’s time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.”

-James Schuyler