Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - December 28, 2016
When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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Clifton Fadiman (1904 - 1999)  
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)  
Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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Rabbi Abraham Heschel  
I felt despair. Though it seems to me now there's two kinds of it: the sort that causes a person to surrender and then the sort I had which made me take risks and make plans.
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Erica Eisdorfer, The Wet Nurse's Tale, 2009  

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