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inspiring quotes
The colossal misunderstanding of our time is the assumption that insight will work with people who are unmotivated to change.
- Edwin H. Friedman
Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
- Elizabeth Gilbert
Everything can be taken from a man but ...the last of the human freedoms - to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.
- Viktor Frankl
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him, or to an unfinished work, will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the "why" for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any "how."
- Viktor Frankl
If you are distressed by anything external (or internal), the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it, and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
- Marcus Aurelius
The opposite of loneliness is not togetherness, it's intimacy.
- Richard Bach
Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.
- Walter Lippmann
