ONE THOUSAND INSPIRATIONAL THINGS
Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler
A collection of wisdom from all times and places
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"Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God." Lew Wallace
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"To the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees." William Blake
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"The most disastrous times have produced the greatest minds. The purest metal comes of the most ardent furnace, the most brilliant lightning comes of the darkest clouds." Chateaubriand
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"If you wish to be loved, love." Seneca
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe
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"We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion." William Penn
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"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." Anonymous
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"The love you liberate breeds greater love everywhere it goes. It's contagious. In the long run it travels around the world." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'
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"I walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore I trust in Him." Izaak Walton
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"Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe
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"We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love." William Penn
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"You and I [are] even now at home in immortality." Louise Driscoll, 'Hold Fast Your Dreams'
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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." Seneca
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"Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built." Phillips Brooks, 'As The Master Wills'
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"Love is the greatest thing in the world and the most important ingredient that enters into life and work." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'
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"He who loves best his fellow-man is loving God the holiest way he can." Alice Cary
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"We might still see God everywhere, if we had not been mistakenly seeking for him apart from us, instead of in us; away from the laws of nature, instead of in them. And we become united, not by mystical absorption, but by partaking of that truth and justice and love which He himself is." Plato
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"I am not dreaming. I am not deluded. Nearer to the grave new light streams for me. We shall continue to exist. We shall see each other again." Goethe
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"Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness…and are of their nature divine and immortal." William Makepeace Thackeray
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"Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything." Goethe
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"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity….scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." Addison
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"Love is the salt that savors the whole and drives away the mists so that the sun may eternally shine." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'
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"There was never yet a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous." Benjamin Franklin
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"All our dignity consists in thought. Let us labor, then, to think well. That is the principle of morality." Pascal
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"In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes." Ruskin
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We are gathering together the primary insights of spirituality and bringing them together into one place.
This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
organized in terms of 39 primary categories. Quotes are randomized and appear in a different way at every click.
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We include
- All major spiritual and religious traditions, from all cultures, and all historical epochs
- Major psychologists, philosophers, writers, scholars and leading religious personalities
- Sources in classical religion as well as voices from new consciousness, esotericism and mysticism
- Choices are guided by the spirit of oneness, love, kindness, inclusion and community
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