inspirational Editor's Pick Quotes

"In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love." — Mother Teresa
As quoted in Women Who Win at Work: Flowers of Wisdom from Visionary Businesswomen (2009) pg. 106 Add Category or Author

"Some of the greater things in life are unseen; that's why you close your eyes when you kiss, cry, or dream." — Author Unknown
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"Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says For the woman I love and the second, For my best friend." — Author Unknown
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"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." — Helen Keller
Keller's teacher, Sullivan, became a dear friend, and it was in a letter to another acquaintance that Keller mentioned Sullivan providing her an understanding of this quote. Add Category or Author

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom." — Author Unknown
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"Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves." — James M. Barrie
As quoted in Christ's Second Coming Fulfilled (1917) pg. 144 Add Category or Author

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." — Helen Keller
We Bereaved (1929) Add Category or Author

"We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors." — Norman Vincent Peale
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"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit." — Harry S. Truman
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"Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it." — Buddha
As quoted in The Problem Behind All Problems (2009) pg. 103 Add Category or Author

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." — David Brinkley
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"Change your thoughts and you change your world." — Norman Vincent Peale
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"Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts." — Winston Churchill
As quoted in The Prodigal Project : Book I : Genesis (2003) pg. 224 Add Category or Author

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within." — James A. Baldwin
As quoted in Critical essays on James Baldwin (1988) Add Category or Author

"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction" — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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"Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step." — Martin Luther King
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"Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal." — Joseph Cossman
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"There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Collected maxims and other reflections (2007) pg. 23 Rochefoucauld was a French author known for his maxims and proverbs. Add Category or Author

"There is no remedy for love but to love more." — Henry David Thoreau
Journal (July 25 1839) From Thoreau's journal. Add Category or Author

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are." — Author Unknown
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