Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes About Inspirational
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If we could destroy custom at a blow and see the stars as a child sees them, we should need no other apocalypse.
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To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
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The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.
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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
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of being strong and brave. The strong can not be brave. Only the weak can be brave; and yet again, in practice, only those who can be brave can be trusted, in time of doubt, to be strong.
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An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
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Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously.
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I've searched all the parks in all the cities - and found no statues of Committees.
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
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God is like the sun; you cannot look at it, but without it you cannot look at anything else.
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Adventure is the champagne of life.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth doing badly. (on not perfectionism to put things off) .
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Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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The way to love anything is to realize that it may be lost.
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Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.
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Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.
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The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
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The human race, to which so many of my readers belong, has been playing at children's games from the beginning, and will probably do it till the end, which is a nuisance for the few people who grow up.
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The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective.
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The home is not the one tame place in the world of adventure. It is the one wild place in the world of rules and set tasks.
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An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace before sketching, painting, swimming, fencing, boxing, walking, playing, dancing and grace before I dip the pen in the ink.
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I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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We are all in the same boat, in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible loyalty.
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There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
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