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Category Archives: Daily Spiring

Selected quotes that increases and impacts your creativity and sense of wonder.

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Quote – Literature & Butterflies

  By Story Institute | January 31, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Literature and butterflies are the two sweetest passions known to man.” Vladimir Nabokov

Tagged butterflies, literature, passion, quote, Vladimir Nabokov

Quote – Light of Language

  By Story Institute | January 30, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language.” Cicero

Tagged Cicero, language, light, quote, thoughts

Quote – Finding Inspiration

  By Story Institute | January 29, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.” Pearl S. Buck

Tagged connection, heart, human beings, inspiration, Pearl S Buck, quote

Quote – Learn Something New

  By Story Institute | January 28, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.” John Burroughs

Tagged John Burroughs, learn, quote, revisit

Quote – Mighty Fires

  By Story Institute | January 27, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.” W. E. B. Du Bois

Tagged mind, quote, stimulate, W.E.B. Du Bois

Quote – Right Time

  By Story Institute | January 26, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Very few things happen at the right time and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.” Herodotus

Tagged Herodotus, history, quote, timing

Quote – Novelist and Preservation

  By Story Institute | January 25, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives.” Vladimir Nabokov

Tagged embedded, novel, quote, Vladimir Nabokov, writing

Quote – Knowledge & Integrity

  By Story Institute | January 24, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” Samuel Johnson

Tagged integrity, knowledge, quote, Samuel Johnson

Quote – Friendship & Respect

  By Story Institute | January 23, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect.” Cicero

Tagged Cicero, friendship, quote, respect

Quote – Inner Place

  By Story Institute | January 22, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.” Pearl S. Buck

Tagged Pearl S Buck, quote, reflection, renew

Quote – Work & Happiness

  By Story Institute | January 21, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“I have discovered the secret of happiness – it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.” John Burroughs

Tagged happiness, initiative, John Burroughs, quote, secret, work

Quote – Measuring the Soul

  By Story Institute | January 20, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others, of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world that looks on in amused contempt and pity.” W. E. B. Du Bois

Tagged quote, soul, thinking, value, W.E.B. Du Bois

Quote – Knowledge & Power

  By Story Institute | January 19, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“This is the bitterest pain among men, to have much knowledge but no power.” Herodotus

Tagged Herodotus, knowledge, power, quote

Quote – Style and Matter

  By Story Institute | January 18, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“All my stories are webs of style and none seems at first blush to contain much kinetic matter. For me style is matter.” Vladimir Nabokov

Tagged creation, matter, quote, stories, sytle, Vladimir Nabokov

Quote – Quotations

  By Story Institute | January 17, 2009 - 9:33 AM | Daily Spiring
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“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.” Samuel Johnson

Tagged language, quotations, quote, Samuel Johnson
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