Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - July 18, 2016
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
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Peter McWilliams  
Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.
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John Keats (1795 - 1821)  
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Altered Egos, 1993  
You will not find your passion in things and you will not find your passion in money. The more things and the more money you have, the more you will look around and use that as the metric and there will be someone with more.
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Randy Pausch, Carnegie Mellon Commencement Speech, 2008  

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