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Inspiration.

For a friend’s birthday, I bought a mini notebook and wrote down as many inspiring quotes I could think of/could find. There were a lot that I loved, and so here’s a list of my favorites.

“Happiness can be found in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.” ~ Albus Dumbledore

“If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything.” ~ SuckerPunch

“And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” ~ Abraham Lincoln

“Your story may not have such a happy beginning, but that doesn’t make you who you are, it is the rest of your story, who you choose to be.” ~ Kung Fu Panda 2

“Birds sing after a storm. Why shouldn’t people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?” ~ Rose Kennedy

“What we do for ourselves dies within us. What we do for the others and the world, remains and is immortal.” ~ Mason Albert Pike

“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt.

“Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.” ~ G.K. Chesterton

“The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it.” ~ Wendell Berry

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself, and all things are possible.” ~ Thomas A. Kempis

“When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability, to be alive is to be vulnerable.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle

Last one for now so this doesn’t end up being too long:

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.” ~ Hellen Keller