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I hope you find these Tennessee Williams Quotes inspiring and motivational.
Oh, you weak, beautiful people
who give up with such grace.
What you need is someone to take hold of you -
gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.
- Tennessee Williams
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The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- Nelson Henderson
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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Change what you see,
by changing how you see.
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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
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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Footprints in the sands of time...
Where have you been?
Where are you going?
Why are you going there?
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The more you see the less you know.
- Bono
Stand Tall, Stand Proud.
Know that you are unique and magnificent.
You do not need the approval of others.
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If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.
- Ram Dass
No, they don't appreciate you - and it's not their job.
It's your own job to appreciate yourself.
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Books are mirrors:
you only see in them what you already have inside you.
- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
It's not whether you get knocked down;
it's whether you get back up.
- Vince Lombardi
You may be always victorious if
you will never enter into any contest
where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself.
- Epictetus
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Uncertainty that comes from knowledge
(knowing what you don't know)
is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.
- Isaac Asimov
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.
- Thomas Jefferson
(also attributed to Benjamin Franklin and Lord Chesterfield)
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself -
and you are the easiest person to fool.
- Richard Feynman
It is by going down into the abyss
that we recover the treasures of life.
Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
- Joseph Campbell
If you have found your truth within yourself
there is nothing more in this whole existence to find.
- Osho
You can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- Joseph Campbell
Never Let Anyone Get Your Goat,
Push Your Buttons,
Get You Riled Up,
or Annoy You.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed;
if in terms of ten years, plant trees;
if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
- Confucius
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
If you do not change direction,
you may end up where you are heading.
- Lao Tzu
Life is not about how fast you run
or how high you climb
but how well you bounce.
- Vivian Komori
The way to happiness is what I call Zero-Based Gratitude.
Each day be happy and grateful for what you have,
independent of yesterday and of other people.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You cannot be totally committed sometimes.
- A Course In Miracles
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,
or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.
It is what you think about.
- Dale Carnegie
Do not let what you cannot do
interfere with what you can do.
- John Wooden
Your thoughts create your reality.
Your mind is more powerful than you know.
- Neale Donald Walsch
Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.
Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner
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
One of the surest ways to cause
yourself great suffering
is to insist upon being right -
to demand that all others view life
exactly as you view it.
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Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
The world you see has nothing to do with reality.
It is of your own making and does not exist.
- A Course In Miracles
All your anxiety is because of your desire for harmony.
Seek disharmony, then you will gain peace.
- Rumi
One thing I know: the only ones among you
who will be really happy are those
who will have sought and found how to serve.
- Albert Schweitzer
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie
It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
If you do what you've always done,
you'll get what you've always gotten.
- Tony Robbins (quoting Mark Twain)
It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out;
it's the grain of sand in your shoe.
- Robert W. Service
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
- Publilius Syrus
Smile, and the world smiles with you.
- Anonymous
As soon as you trust yourself,
you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you are offended at any man's fault,
turn to yourself and study your own failings.
Then you will forget your anger.
- Epictetus
You can't stop the music, nobody can stop the music.
- Village People
Improve what you can
and accept all the rest of life
just as it comes.
Know that fear is your worst enemy -
perhaps your only enemy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Everyone is a mirror image of yourself -
your own thinking coming back at you.
- Byron Katie
In order to succeed, you must first be willing to fail.
- Anonymous
If you are the master, be sometimes blind,
if you are the servant, be sometimes deaf.
- R. Buckminster Fuller
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
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
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- Henry David Thoreau
Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.
- Benjamin Franklin
Your eyes must not determine what you see. pay attention.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm,
you'll never enjoy the sunshine.
- Morris West
Who were you before you put yourself last.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
"Begin at the beginning," the King said, very gravely,
"and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
- Lewis Carroll
You will never find time for anything.
If you want time you must make it.
- Charles Buxton
First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.
- Epictetus
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