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Hi Friends,
 
 I am just starting a new forum where you can put a quote which has inspired you a lot. Today I am putting one of my favorite quotes.

 "Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength."

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger (Hollywood Actor)

Please feel free to have your comments on this and also put your favorite quotes.
Love you all,

jkb

"Only one kind of doors stay still closed- those, which we have never tried to knock at".

                                                                                       author unknown (for me)

greetings, J 

"Change your thoughts and you change your world". (Norman Vincent Peale)

Best,

Yun

"Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill." 

proverb

Namastey jkb, hello friends,

I like quotations very much and is very difficult to choose one. I copied out the nice ones written here in my scrapbook.I'm eagering to read more in this forum.Regarding the one you wrote , jkb, it invites me to think about those who struggle for survival daily, their strength should teach us not fussing all the time.

"There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure." 

                                             Paulo Coelho

Dear Bigmama and friends,

 Thanks for sharing your Quotes and proverbs. We can learn a lot from other's experiences. Proverbs are there for helping us in this. I am just listing another quote which inspired me a lot.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
 - William Hazlitt

 Take care,

Love you all,

jkb

The following has empowered me through many hard times. 

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.

-Edmund Burke

This one helps me to enjoy every day of life, even the bad one.

Life is that what happens, while you making other plans.

John Lennon

Here a funny, but also true quotation. It remembers me to try to get to the bottom of rules and laws.

No alcohol is also no answer.

Campino, German punk musican

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless"

             Mother Teresa

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

Tagore

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

Booker T.Washington

We've learned how to make a living, but not a life; we've added years to life, not life to years.

George Carlin

He who loses wealth loses much, he who loses a friend loses more, but he who loses courage loses all.

Cervantes