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Inspirational Quotations #630

May 1, 2016 By Nagesh Belludi Leave a Comment

I believe in liberty for all men: the space to stretch their arms and their souls; the right to breathe and the right to vote, the freedom to choose their friends, enjoy the sunshine, and ride on the railroads, uncursed by color; thinking, dreaming, working as they will in a kingdom of beauty and love.
—W. E. B. Du Bois (American Civil Rights Activist)

The more you express gratitude for what you have the more you will have to express gratitude for.
—Zig Ziglar (American Author)

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (American Physician)

Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.
—Maurice Maeterlinck (Belgian Playwright)

He who lives in the future lives in a featureless blank; he lives in impersonality; he lives in Nirvana. The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone in his prediction, just as each man is alone in a dream.
—G. K. Chesterton (English Journalist)

Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.
—Herman Melville (American Novelist)

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.
—Alfred North Whitehead (English Mathematician)

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.
—Havelock Ellis (British Sexologist)

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