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One Thousand Inspirational Things
Audrey Stone Morris, Compiler
A collection of wisdom from all times and places

1 "We have a call to do good, as often as we have the power and occasion." William Penn

2 "Love is the salt that savors the whole and drives away the mists so that the sun may eternally shine." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'

3 "In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; rejoice in it; as you can, try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes." Ruskin

4 "You and I [are] even now at home in immortality." Louise Driscoll, 'Hold Fast Your Dreams'

5 "We meet on the broad pathway of good faith and good will; no advantage shall be taken on either side, but all shall be openness and love." William Penn

6 "The seeds of the Divine mind [are] sown in man." Ovid

7 "The love you liberate breeds greater love everywhere it goes. It's contagious. In the long run it travels around the world." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'

8 "Slowly, through all the universe, the temple of God is being built." Phillips Brooks, 'As The Master Wills'

9 "Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds." Goethe

10 "Love is the greatest thing in the world and the most important ingredient that enters into life and work." George Matthew Adams, 'The Love You Liberate'

11 "If you wish to be loved, love." Seneca

12 "No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness." Phillips Brooks

13 "All our dignity consists in thought. Let us labor, then, to think well. That is the principle of morality." Pascal

14 "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love." Goethe

15 "He who loves best his fellow-man is loving God the holiest way he can." Alice Cary

16 "There is a destiny that makes us brothers; none goes his way alone: all that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own." Edwin Markham, 'A Creed'

17 "When we consider we are bound to be serviceable to mankind, and bear with their faults, we shall perceive there is a common tie of nature and relation between us." Marcus Aurelius

18 "Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire – conscience." George Washington

19 "Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away, but love stays with us. Love is God." Lew Wallace

20 "We might still see God everywhere, if we had not been mistakenly seeking for him apart from us, instead of in us; away from the laws of nature, instead of in them. And we become united, not by mystical absorption, but by partaking of that truth and justice and love which He himself is." Plato

21 "I walk the meadows by some gliding stream, and there contemplate the lilies that take no care, and those very many other little living creatures that are not only created, but fed by the goodness of the God of Nature, and therefore I trust in Him." Izaak Walton

22 "Truth never yet fell dead in the streets: it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold." Theodore Parker

23 "To the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself. As a man is, so he sees." William Blake

24 "Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness…and are of their nature divine and immortal." William Makepeace Thackeray

25 "Great forces are in process of endeavouring to turn to constructive ends the apparent chaos of our time and are even using our confusion and despair for the furtherance of the Divine Plan."

This body of quotes compiled by JoAnn Kite