“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
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Inspiration Quotes
120 quotes on inspiration and encouragement — from the classics to the everyday.
“Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
Voltaire
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs.”
Leo Tolstoy
“Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
Leo Tolstoy · A Calendar of Wisdom, 1908
“There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness, and truth.”
Leo Tolstoy · War and Peace, 1869
“The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”
Coco Chanel
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
J. R. R. Tolkien · The Fellowship of the Ring, 1954
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.”
Louisa May Alcott · Little Women, 1868
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances.”
Viktor Frankl · Man's Search for Meaning, 1946
“In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity.”
Albert Einstein
“The loveliness of the day is almost unbearable.”
Anne Frank · The Diary of a Young Girl
“Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes.”
Ada Louise Huxtable · Various essays on design and living
“The summer I was fifteen I felt alive all the way down to my toenails.”
Joyce Carol Oates · Bellefleur
“Dignity under pressure is its own kind of answer to the world.”
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“This is a wonderful day. I've never seen this one before.”
Maya Angelou
“Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.”
Yoko Ono
“First thing every morning before you arise, say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.”
Ovid · "Ars Amatoria", c. 2 BC
