Motivational Quotes of the Day

Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - August 10, 2025
People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.
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Margaret Cho, weblog, 10-30-03  
There's the country of America, which you have to defend, but there's also the idea of America. America is more than just a country, it's an idea. An idea that's supposed to be contagious.
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Bono (1960 - ), Oprah Winfrey Show, 2002  
There is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)  
The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.
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John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938  

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