ONE THOUSAND INSPIRATIONAL THINGS
Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler
A collection of wisdom from all times and places
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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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"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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"Truth never yet fell dead in the streets: it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold." Theodore Parker
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"No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." Phillips Brooks
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"Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire – conscience." George Washington
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"The seeds of the Divine mind [are] sown in man." Ovid
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"We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe
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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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"Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God." Lew Wallace
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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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"Whatever is to make us better and happy, God has placed either openly before us or close to us." Seneca
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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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"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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"The more a man knows, the more he forgives." Anonymous
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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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"Great forces are in process of endeavouring to turn to constructive ends the apparent chaos of our time and are even using our confusion and despair for the furtherance of the Divine Plan."
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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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"If you wish to be loved, love." Seneca
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"Guided by One Mind, our lesser minds unite."
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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 and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe
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"When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us." Marcus Aurelius
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"As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you, in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts, the eternal thought speaking in your thought." George Macdonald
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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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"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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This archive contains 11,754 quotes, taken from 635 references,
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- 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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