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Inspirational Quotes About Success "Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it." — Charles R. Swindoll “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.”—
Quotes for when you're sick of counting sheep. Home & Garden. Lighter Side
Braley was a prolific author of poems, prose, plays, and humorous non-fiction articles Sonnets of a Freshman (1904). Illustrated by C. R. Freeman. Madison, WI: Wisconsin State Journal. The Oracle on Smoke: being a few utterances in a simple and not at all delphic style, with certain so-called poems there among scattered (1905). Madison, WI: The ...
Rubicon Press published The Rubicon Dictionary of Positive, Motivational, Life-Affirming, and Inspirational Quotations, compiled and arranged by John Cook, in 1993. 1997-2001. Fairview Press acquired all rights to the Rubicon edition, republishing the work in hardcover in 1996 as The Fairview Guide to Positive Quotations.
The speaker of the poem describes the gruesome effects of the gas on the man, and concludes that anyone who sees the reality of war at first hand would not repeat mendacious platitudes such as dulce et decorum est pro patria mori: "How sweet and honourable it is to die for one's country". Owen himself was a soldier who served on the front line ...
The inspirational sloka was Swami Vivekananda's message to the Indians to get out of their hypnotized state of mind. [2] The sloka was meant as a call to his countrymen to awaken their "sleeping soul" and propagate the message of peace and blessings given by the "ancient Mother" to the world. "Awake" also denotes the awakening of one's real ...
And Still I Rise is Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry. She studied and began writing poetry at a young age. [1] After her rape at the age of eight, as recounted in her first autobiography, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), she dealt with her trauma by memorizing and reciting great works of literature, including poetry, which helped bring her out of her self-imposed muteness.
The demand for her poems became so great that her books are still selling steadily after many printings, and she has been acclaimed as "America's beloved inspirational poet laureate". [2] [3] Helen Steiner Rice’s books of inspirational poetry have now sold nearly seven million copies. Her strong religious faith and the ability she had to ...