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Belief creates the actual fact. -- William James
What keeps me going is goals. -- Muhammad Ali
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them. -- Albert Einstein
If we believe in magic, we'll live a magical life. -- Tony Robbins
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. -- Francis Bacon
Even if happiness forgets you a little bit, never completely forget about it. -- Jacques Prevert
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -- Richard Bach
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. -- Democritus
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. -- Beverly Sills
Every small positive change we make in ourselves repays us in confidence in the future. -- Alice Walker
Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. -- Oprah Winfrey
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. -- Winston Churchill
Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. -- Thomas Merton
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. -- Jimmy Dean
I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
Don't be intimidated by what you don't know. That can be your greatest strength and ensure that you do things differently from everyone else. -- Sara Blakely
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will. -- Vince Lombardi
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone. -- Henry Rollins
I just love life. I love people. I love to write, that's my gift. I love to sing. I have a good attitude. I like to think I shine from the inside. -- Dolly Parton
Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition. -- Martha Washington
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person. -- Fred Rogers
Uplifting traditions . . . that promote love for Deity and unity in families and among people are especially important. -- Donald L. Hallstrom
An inspired and inspiring guide to living with optimism in a world that is increasingly jaded and pessimistic. Uplifting, rousing, and challenging us to dream the world into being in a positive and creative manner. -- Alberto Villoldo
Gossip is hardly uplifting. -- Ginger Rogers
I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting. -- Howard Stern
I like old tunes when I'm driving. They're fun and uplifting. Billy Ocean, that kind of thing. -- Jenson Button
I try to make my mood uplifting and peaceful, then watch the world around me reflect that mood. -- Yaya DaCosta
Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting. -- Michael Stipe
A memoir should have some uplifting quality, inspiring or illuminating, and that's what separates a life story that can influence other people. -- Mitch Albom
An uplifting sense of purpose is more than an impetus for individual accomplishment, it is also a necessary insurance policy against expediency and impropriety. -- Gary Hamel
I think Romeo and Juliet is uplifting. That's how much a son wishes to avenge his father. That is how much two young people can love each other. -- Ben Kingsley
This CD became something of a personal journey for me. The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world. -- Roma Downey
Red Band Society' is inspiring, funny, and an uplifting story that makes you want to make the most of your life, love and live to the fullest, and that's a great message. -- Nolan Sotillo
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. It's far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, it's not a big stretch from hymns. -- Kaskade
Trance is a very emotional and uplifting form of dance music. It appeals to many people in this way having such a strong connection with emotions. It makes people happy and ready to party. -- Tiesto
I want people to see that the cosmic perspective is simultaneously honest about the universe we live in and uplifting, when we realize how far we have come and how wonderful is this world of ours. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important. -- Ian Mcewan
Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something. -- Ralph Marston
Music does a lot of things for a lot of people. It's transporting, for sure. It can take you right back, years back, to the very moment certain things happened in your life. It's uplifting, it's encouraging, it's strengthening. -- Aretha Franklin
India is a land of plenty inhibited by poverty; India has an enthralling, uplifting civilization that sparkles not only in our magnificent art, but also in the enormous creativity and humanity of our daily life in city and village. -- Pranab Mukherjee
The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you. -- Andre Rieu
What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations. -- Adam Braun
Most of the time, if I'm in a pickle, I'll call one of my brothers. They've usually got somewhat uplifting advice. One is six and a half years older and one is eight years older, so they've probably lived through whatever my problem is. -- Liam Hemsworth
Choice is more than picking 'x' over 'y.' It is a responsibility to separate the meaningful and the uplifting from the trivial and the disheartening. It is the only tool we have that enables us to go from who we are today to who we want to be tomorrow. -- Sheena Iyengar
One of the best moments of any Liars show is hearing the crowd squawk 'We're doomed! We're doomed!' on cue during 'We Fenced Other Houses with the Bones of Our Own.' Maybe not the most uplifting audience sing-along in the indie rock world, but one of the most reliably entertaining. -- Rob Sheffield
When we put our trust in diplomacy, it is not because it is an inspiring or uplifting discourse or because it helps us see the common humanity in others. The stylized circumlocutions of diplomats can make them seem ridiculous or irrelevant: they never seem to be talking about what is really going on. -- Noah Feldman
The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing. -- Jerry Saltz
It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills. -- Thomas Aquinas
In a day when broadcasters and publishers have rather free access into our homes, we must seek clean, uplifting entertainment, whether on television, videos, movies, magazines, books, and other printed material. We should be very selective and choose only those things that meet the test of being virtuous, lovely, of good report, or praiseworthy. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I love uplifting television. -- Rebecca Romijn
In uplifting, get underneath. -- George Ade
I love art. It is uplifting. -- Damien Hirst
Encouragement is uplifting to the spirit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
But I'm English. We don't do uplifting. -- Tony Judt
BE THE MEDIA is uplifting and empowering. -- Tim Wu
Daily inspiration is uplifting to the spirit. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
An act of kindness is uplifting to the soul. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
pity is an agreeable sentiment, uplifting like military music. -- Francoise Sagan
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. -- Vera Rubin
They were rebellious through their artistic expression and their uplifting spirits -- Evan Meekins
Christianity is the greatest civilizing, moulding, uplifting power on this globe. -- Mark Hopkins
There is nothing more uplifting than love, except love with kindness. -- Debasish Mridha
Our power comes not from suppressing others but from uplifting them. -- Sakyong Mipham
It's nice to come into an atmosphere that's uplifting and good. -- Steve Trotter
But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust -- Edgar Allan Poe
Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature. -- Jack Miller
I believe all painting and art should be uplifting for the viewer. -- Damien Hirst
All that occurs within the walls of the temple is uplifting and enobling. -- Thomas S. Monson
Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work? -- Oliver $
Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting. -- Steve Forbert
I do not allow others to influence my thinking unless it is positive or uplifting. -- Louise Hay
Playing Lissa was the most thrilling, terrifying, uplifting, fulfilling, surprising, and experience of my life. -- Lucy Fry
To see one's goal and to drive toward it, steeling one's heart, is most uplifting. -- Henrik Ibsen
Today, recall a favorite memory, which serves as a gateway to uplifting feelings and thoughts. -- Doreen Virtue
Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Ruth's writing is so joyful, funny and uplifting; it's always a real treat of a read. -- Fiona Walker
Set goals that make your heart sing. Then achieving them is an experience of uplifting joy. -- Amy Leigh Mercree
I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others. -- Louise Hay
Everyone finds my work super sad. I never do. I always find it uplifting in a weird way. -- Jeff Lemire
Nothing is as uplifting as standing before a great painting whether it was painted in 1505 or last Tuesday. -- Charles Saatchi
Surround yourself with the kinds of input that are uplifting, that expand your mind and settle your spirit. -- Thomas Kinkade
Robert Gass and 'On Wings of Song' bring about magical transformation and inspire people with extraordinary, uplifting, and spiritual music. -- Deepak Chopra
I find placebos uplifting and exhilarating. It means that taking action--no matter what the action is--might help you feel better. -- A. J. Jacobs
Nothing is sadder than laughter; nothing more beautiful, more magnificent, more uplifting and enriching than the terror of deep despair. -- Federico Fellini
I have such a love of good music that I find even melancholic music uplifting. Maybe I'm a rare breed. -- Anton Corbijn
Art is a ripening, an evolution, an uplifting which enables us to emerge from darkness into a blaze of light. -- Jerzy Grotowski
Radiate an energy of serenity and peace so that you have an uplifting effect on those you come into contact with. -- Wayne Dyer
The negro has within him immense power for self-uplifting, but for years it will be necessary to guide and stimulate him. -- Booker T. Washington
Gratitude is uplifting and helps you glow, stay beautiful, and feel eternally young as it churns up zeal and undying enthusiasm. -- Pooja Ruprell
If someone analyzed your words today, what percentage would be tender, encouraging, uplifting, faith-building, and joyful? Would it match Christ's proportions? -- David Jeremiah
It is uplifting to lose one?s faith in a reality which looks the way it is described in a newspaper. -- Karl Kraus
What excites me? I think it's moving and uplifting my audience. Having them get it and go with it. That excites me. -- Tyler Perry
I love San Francisco, and it offers spectacular scenery of the city, and it adds to the uplifting quality of the movie. -- Tommy Wiseau
Work is holy, sacred, and uplifting when it springs from who we are, when it bears a relationship to our unfolding journey. -- Wayne Teasdale
We give physical exercise to the body, but neglect the heart. The exercise for the heart is uplifting the destitute and the suffering. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom. -- Patrick Stump
If youre a sugar addict like most people, you need to read Beyond Sugar Shock. This compassionate, comforting, uplifting book will change your life. -- Kathy Smith
So, twice a week, I go to a beauty salon and have my hair blown dry. It's cheaper by far than psychoanalysis, and much more uplifting. -- Nora Ephron
Miss America gets a lot of flak, but the reality is that it is uplifting and aspirational - 50% percent of my points were based on talent. -- Gretchen Carlson
The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies. -- Morgan Brittany
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity. -- Woodrow Wilson
Yes, I live in God, and shall eternally. It is His hand upholds me now; and death will be but an uplifting of me into His bosom. -- William Mountford
Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool. -- Gary Wright
The key aspect to meditating is that you close your eyes and engage in thoughts that are positive, uplifting, and create feelings of physical and emotional relaxation. -- Tim McCarthy
The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York -- Frank Dane
You can work on healing, uplifting, and changing situations from a place of forgiveness, instead of from a place of resentment. Forgive yourself and everyone, and you are free! -- Doreen Virtue
People know Tyler Perry, and there are standards they've come to expect from him. His brand is uplifting, and it's something a lot of inner-city African-Americans can relate to. -- Michael Jai White
We can increase the frequency of guiding coincidences by uplifting every person that comes into our lives. Care must be taken not to lose our inner connection in romantic relationships. -- James Redfield
I wouldn't say that my experience making it [the Waitress] was necessarily uplifting, but watching it with an audience, I was surprised at how hopeful it was at the end. -- Keri Russell
I want to listen to Beethoven and Mozart. I want to read the best minds. I want to live with uplifting art. I don't want to live a grubby life. -- Alexandra Stoddard
Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories. -- Jack Canfield
I don't think that moms, with all that's going on in our society today, would want to put their kids in front of something that will be disheartening rather than uplifting. -- Octavia Spencer
You're constantly, in human culture, trying to balance between uplifting, heartfelt, sincere, earnestness that empowers and enlightens people, and the sarcastic cynicism that comes from just people's acquired bitterness over experiences. -- Seth Green
Vaudeville was characterized by sunny optimism, acts that were uplifting, cheerful, and clean. It provided a fanciful, magical escape, but after Black Friday, the tone of American entertainment changed almost overnight. -- Karen Abbott
A delightful, intelligent read. Jim Zirin's sparkling account of life in the Second Circuit's famed MOTHER COURT is informative, riveting, accessible, and uplifting. It would be criminal not to read this book. -- Linda Fairstein
An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring! -- Hillary Carlip
Listening to music is such an uplifting, spiritual thing. Its far-fetched to some - I understand that. But the way dance music brings people together, its not a big stretch from hymns. -- Kaskade

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