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What is your favourite inspirational quote?


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Mine has to be Kipling's 'If' - timeless!

 

That's a very short quote. ;)

 

I like: "..the human mind is more a universe than the universe itself"

 

It's from John Fowles' 'The Magus'.

 

Anticipating Nietzsche's "All that does not destroy me makes me stronger" appearing, if the thread continues.

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"Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key". - Alan Bennett

 

"Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love which any of us can convince ourselves we are. Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident". - Captain Corelli's Mandolin.

 

Yes, I am a girl.

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"People know you for what you've done, not for what you plan to do". Not sure who said this, but it's a pretty good truism

 

Going off-topic, a religious one I always remember from an old Uni lecturer:

 

"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed" - Albert Einstein

 

Also a humours one that's stuck in my mind since reading it years ago:

 

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move" - Douglas Adams

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