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Don't think or judge, just listen.

— Sarah Dessen
Inspirational

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.For poise, walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone....We leave you a tradition with a future.The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.Never throw out anybody.Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.Your “good old days� are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.

— Sam Levenson
Inspirational Kindness Art & Beauty

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.

— C.S. Lewis
Inspirational Friendship

Promise YourselfTo be so strong that nothingcan disturb your peace of mind.To talk health, happiness, and prosperityto every person you meet.To make all your friends feelthat there is something in themTo look at the sunny side of everythingand make your optimism come true.To think only the best, to work only for the best,and to expect only the best.To be just as enthusiastic about the success of othersas you are about your own.To forget the mistakes of the pastand press on to the greater achievements of the future.To wear a cheerful countenance at all timesand give every living creature you meet a smile.To give so much time to the improvement of yourselfthat you have no time to criticize others.To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,not in loud words but great deeds.To live in faith that the whole world is on your sideso long as you are true to the best that is in you.

— Christian D. Larson
Inspirational Love Courage & Strength Positive Thinking Happiness

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald
Inspirational Women

Whatever you are, be a good one.

— Abraham Lincoln
Inspirational

May you live every day of your life.

— Jonathan Swift
Inspirational Life Philosophy Wisdom

Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

— Thomas Szasz
Inspirational Humor

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

— George Orwell
Inspirational

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

— Nicholas Klein
Inspirational

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

— George Eliot
Inspirational

This life is what you make it. No matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. But the good part is you get to decide how you're going to mess it up. Girls will be your friends - they'll act like it anyway. But just remember, some come, some go. The ones that stay with you through everything - they're your true best friends. Don't let go of them. Also remember, sisters make the best friends in the world. As for lovers, well, they'll come and go too. And baby, I hate to say it, most of them - actually pretty much all of them are going to break your heart, but you can't give up because if you give up, you'll never find your soulmate. You'll never find that half who makes you whole and that goes for everything. Just because you fail once, doesn't mean you're gonna fail at everything. Keep trying, hold on, and always, always, always believe in yourself, because if you don't, then who will, sweetie? So keep your head high, keep your chin up, and most importantly, keep smiling, because life's a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.

— Marilyn Monroe
Inspirational Life Love Friendship Relationships

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

— Maya Angelou
Inspirational Books & Writing

Everything you can imagine is real.

— Pablo Picasso
Inspirational Life Art & Beauty

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

— C.S. Lewis
Inspirational Books & Writing

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.