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See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free.
Every time you try to encourage someone else, your own soul will be flooded with a light and glow of peace and good cheer.
Here is an affirmation for today: I feel passionately about my life, and this passion fills me with excitement and energy!
I love to dance. I think it's so much fun! I love classic Motown, hip-hop, pop, whatever has a good beat and is uplifting.
Serene will be our days, and bright and happy will our nature be, when love is an unerring light, and joy its own security.
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise.
This day is all that is good and fair. It is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
If we're going to be authentic in our leadership, we will have to be willing to serve, and we have to be willing to suffer.
You cannot become great women if you are not also good women. Great women respond generously to their instincts to do good.
Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey.
Let it [racism] be a problem to someone else... Let it drag them down. Don't use it as an excuse for your own shortcomings.
Music, unleashed, can uplift and create and destroy, stripping away pretenses and leaving raw, exposed vulnerability behind.
The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.
We are not engaged in domestic politics, in church building or in social uplift work, but we are engaged in nation building.
Each of us embodies, in a particular tale and clothed in the garments of time & place, universal truth and everlasting life.
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
To succeed, you have to do something and be very bad at it for a while. You have to look bad before you can look really good.
You do not suffer because things are impermanent. You suffer because things are impermanent and you think they are permanent.
Your acts of kindness are iridescent wings of divine love, which linger and continue to uplift others long after your sharing.
I miss singing with an orchestra because that's the most uplifting thing that I ever knew. It is just such a fabulous feeling.
People who do not need to please are irresistible because they radiate wholeness, a rare delicacy in a world of hungry hearts.
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Literature ceases to be literature when it commits itself to moral uplift; it becomes moral philosophy or some such dull thing.
I know that I've been put on this Earth to make people happy, to inspire people, and to uplift people. That's a beautiful thing.
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom.
Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing.
Fold him in his country's stars. Roll the drum and fire the volley! What to him are all our wars, What but death bemocking folly?
Grace fills empty spaces, but it can only enter where there is a void to receive it, and it is grace itself which makes this void.
It's the gymnasium of life where you get the workout, the resistance, and you find out things about yourself that you didn't know.
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better.
By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
Alas, how can we help but mourn When hero bosoms yield their breath! A century itself may bear But once the flower of such a death.
I am proud to be an American. Because an American can eat anything on the face of this earth as long as he has two pieces of bread.
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.
And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase.
It's always great to see someone's life change for the better, and to be involved in something like that is really uplifting for me.
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering.
The Flag still floats unblotted with defeat! But ah the blood that keeps its ripples red, The starry lives that keep its field alight.
Upbuilding is necessary for the uplifting of our soul... Indonesia must be a strong country packed with factories. This is our utopia.
Ever since I could remember anything, flowers have been like dear friends to me, comforters, inspirers, powers to uplift and to cheer.
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It’s cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting.
When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.
You can't make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable.
Sometimes, just saying that you hate something, and having someone agree with you, can make you feel better about a terrible situation.
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair.