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27 Inspirational Jim Carrey Quotes

James Eugene “Jim” Carrey is a Canadian American actor best known for his comedy movies and comedic expressions with a highly energetic slapstick performance. Jim Carrey has also done screenwriting and film production. He is best known from movies such as ‘The Mask’, ‘Dumb and Dumber’, ‘Ace Ventura’ and many more. Take a look at some unexpected Jim Carrey Quotes: 27 Inspirational Jim Carrey Quotes: 1. “You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.” – Jim Carrey 2. “People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.” – Jim Carrey 3. “My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.” – Jim Carrey 4. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.” – Jim Carrey 5. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.” – Jim Carrey 6. “If you’ve got a talent, protect it.” – Jim Carrey 7. “Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.” – Jim Carrey 8. “Originality is really important.” – Jim Carrey 9. “Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.” – Jim Carrey 10. “For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.” – Jim Carrey 11. “I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my garden, and i go, ‘Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.” – Jim Carrey 12. “I just want to be myself.” – Jim Carrey 13. “Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.” – Jim Carrey 14. “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” – Jim Carrey 15. “I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.” – Jim Carrey     16. “It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” – Jim Carrey 17. “I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.” – Jim Carrey 18. “You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.” – Jim Carrey 19. “I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.” – Jim Carrey 20. “Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.” – Jim Carrey 21. “As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.” – Jim Carrey 22. “Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” – Jim Carrey 23. “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” – Jim Carrey 24. “It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.” – Jim Carrey 25. “But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.” – Jim Carrey 26. “I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.” – Jim Carrey 27. “I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.” – Jim Carrey What’s your favorite Jim Carrey Quote? Share your favorite quote in the comment section below.

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22 Inspirational Leo Tolstoy Quotes

Leo Tolstoy is a Russian author and is considered one of the greatest of all time. He is known for his realist fiction novels ‘War and Peach’ and ‘Anna Karenina’ written in the mid to late 19th century. In addition, he wrote a plays, and a number of philosophical essays as well as some semi-autobiographies. Here are some of Leo Tolstoy’s Quotes: 22 Inspirational Leo Tolstoy Quotes: 1. “There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.” – Leo Tolstoy 2. “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” – Leo Tolstoy 3. “And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.” – Leo Tolstoy 4. “One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.” – Leo Tolstoy 5. “Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” – Leo Tolstoy 6. “Boredom: the desire for desires.” – Leo Tolstoy 7. “If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one’s reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.” – Leo Tolstoy 8. “I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means – except by getting off his back.” – Leo Tolstoy 9. “If you want to be happy, be.” – Leo Tolstoy 10. “All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.” – Leo Tolstoy 11. “Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible.” – Leo Tolstoy     12. “The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life.” – Leo Tolstoy 13. “The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.” – Leo Tolstoy 14. “All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” – Leo Tolstoy 15. “Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself.” – Leo Tolstoy 16. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy 17. “Joy can only be real if people look upon their life as a service and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.” – Leo Tolstoy 18. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy 19. “A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction.” – Leo Tolstoy 20. “The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” – Leo Tolstoy 21. “Some mathematician said: ‘Pleasure lies not in discovering truth, but in seeking it.’” – Leo Tolstoy 22. “The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life.” – Leo Tolstoy What’s your favorite Leo Tolstoy Quote? Share your favorite quote in the comment section below.

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