Inspiration Quotes - Page 24

When we believe we can, we do – even when it seems all odds are against us.

Often, our relationships become an unrealized quest for what is perfect, unfettered, and free of flaws. We expect our partners, spouses, and our friends to avoid missteps and to be magical mind readers. These secret expectations play a sinister part in many of the great tragedies of our lives: failed marriages, dissipated dreams, abandoned careers, outcast family, deserted children, and discarded friendships.We readily forget what we once knew as children: our flaws are not only natural but integral to our beings. They are interwoven into our soul’s DNA and yet we continually reject the crooked, wrinkled, mushy parts of our life rather than embrace them as the very essence of our beings.I once believed that aiming for perfection would land me in the realm of excellence. This, however, may not be the trajectory of how things happen. In fact, the pursuit of perfection may be the biggest obstacle to becoming whole.It seems essential to value hard work and determination and yet recognize that the road to excellence is littered with mistakes and subsequent lessons. Imperfection and excellence are intertwined. There is joy in our pain, strength in weakness, courage in compassion, and power in forgiveness.

Ann Brasco

It seems to make little sense how a person's self-worth or self-confidence should be wrapped up in how much their jacket is worth or what shoe they are wearing. Does a person's round or pointy-tip shoe really say anything of value about who a person is?It seems that true luxury lies in a freedom from needing that red-bottom shoe, that handbag with all the tiny initials and big price tag, or the latest trend to know that a person truly matters. True luxury seems to lie in the separation of confidence and materialism.Authentic luxury flourishes from the untying of self-worth from popular opinion.

Ann Brasco

You just have to live your life with confidence, not caring what they think. Just shake off the drama because you know you're better than they think you are!

Karen Gibbs

Some women are built by the fire. Yet, there are some that are the FIRE!

Shannon L. Alder

You have to make your own choices in life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Never allow anyone embarrass you without your consent.

Maggy Mae

Woman, the child of so many tears shall never perish.

Ambrose of Milan

Every 'no' is a 'yes' to something.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

If ever in pain, I think the best thing we can do is to create something.

Kamal Ravikant

Rather than idolizing perfection, we must choose to cherish what is real. To truly live is to love deeply, to get messy, to sometimes get hurt, and to stumble and fall. It is worth it. The alternative of living a life barren of these things in the pursuit of perfection would be tragically uninteresting.

Ann Brasco

She has suffered so much, and that sorrows me. But she has been strong in the face of unthinkable adversity, and that inspires me.

Dean Koontz

Once I embraced the dreams that once inspired. Now I've found that there is too much I didn't recognize as a gift. I may be too late to see, cherish, and endure. I may never change, but be forever stuck in the past without realizing until my eyes open to the sun and I have forgotten the moon.

J.D. Stroube

Not all of the moments what you encountered in your mind are reminisced, the time will remember us.

Kurt Reiner C. Suarez

Appreciate the things and people in your life while remaining independent of them. Give thanks for them, but realize that they do not complete you. Only you can complete you.

Serenity Rey

No one can discover you until you do. Exploit your talents, skills and strengths and make the world sit up and take notice.

Rob Liano

Believe in the strength of your own resolve.

Sandra T. Huerta

My childhood was one of both poverty and plenty, suffering and joy. I was taken out of poverty, both financial and emotional, and lavished with love. I was given a gift I could never repay if I lived a thousand lifetimes, it was the gift of hope and trust, given to me by my uncle who believed in me so strongly that I began to believe in myself.

Sara Niles

Don't celebrate how old you are, celebrate the years you survived.

Touaxia Vang

We tend to think that it’s up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn’t ever work, and for the following reason:If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Amanda Butterworth

No matter how small you are or feel or think you are–live big. Yours is the only life of you, in this form, the world will ever have!

Na'ama Yehuda

I am still bullied occasionally. However, none of my current bullies really exist. They’re all in my head. Be your own best friend instead of your worst enemy.

Abiola Abrams

How do you know if someone loves herself? No hairstyle, religion, or ethnicity has ownership of self-love or a greater propensity toward self-hatred. The best way to tell if a woman loves herself is by how she treats herself and others. She makes self-loving choices.

Abiola Abrams

Stop waiting for creative inspiration. Start creating and inspire yourself along the way.

Ryan Lilly

No serum can vhange who you are. Nor should you change. Genius or madness--it al depends on who's telling the story.

Megan Shepherd

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Ya'ira Somerville

Where there is life, there is a hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Inspiration builds self-esteem, it builds communities, and it builds lives. It creates paths where previous paths didn’t exist.

Elaina Marie

Nobody can help you as much as you can help yourself.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Being an atheist means you have to realise that when you die, that really is it. You've got to make the most of what you've got here and spread as much influence as you can. I believe that you only live through the influence that you spread, whether that means having a kid or making music....I don't believe in heaven or hell, I don't really believe in that version.

Matthew Bellamy

The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.

Corrie ten Boom

If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until you're sixty-five.

Morrie Schwartz

Look at your life like a blank canvas and you're the artist, now go ahead and paint your masterpiece." Ray Mancini.

Ray Mancini

I am not here to be average, I am not here to be great, I am not here to be successful, and I am not here to be happy, I am here to simply be all of me.

Ray Mancini

When there is shortage of anointing, you will begin to doubt your calling

Steven Chuks Nwaokeke

It does wonders for my own psyche to turn envy into inspiration. No matter how successful we become, we're never above that.

Hillman Curtis

The best thing to learn from any government is that it does not get affacted by what other people talk or think about it.

Amit Kalantri

We're all guilty of dedicating time to people who didn't value it.

Turcois Ominek

You won’t fail! That’s the fear in you lying to you. You will succeed! That’s why fear is trying so hard to stop you. I encourage you to take that first step. Walk into your purpose and do what you were born to do. Have faith in yourself. Have courage to move forward doubting NOTHING. Doubt has no place and serves no purpose. Give yourself a chance to uncover all of the greatness that’s within you!

Stephanie Lahart

To understand God we must understand ourselves. If I give you an apple and ask you, “What is that?” you reply, “An apple.”“How do you know it’s an apple?”“Because it just is.”“How did it get to be an apple?”“It came from an apple.”“Exactly. So when I ask you, ‘What are you?’ you can honestly say, ‘I am a child of God because I came from God.

Toni Sorenson

I find myself in the moment of solitude.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Great faith, Great spirit.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Dance with your sacred rhythm.

Lailah Gifty Akita

Yes, the same God who created all the universes created you as a one-of-a-kind. He knows you and loves you and commands you to love yourself.

Toni Sorenson

As I read the Qur’an and prayed the Islamic prayers, a door to my heart was unsealed and I was immersed in an overwhelming tenderness.

Jeffrey Lang

A purposeful act or extension of kindness to another is never wasted, for it always resides in the hearts of all involved in a chain of love.

Molly Friedenfeld

Kindness always leaves a timeless deposit on the heart.

Molly Friedenfeld

Spread LOVE and KINDNESS wherever you go. Then you can be sure you are never far from it!

Molly Friedenfeld

Your joy can be the impetus that motivates others to find their way to joy.

Molly Friedenfeld

Some people are crazy in love. They are so captivated to where they've lost themselves. Do not be lured in so deep that you lose the essence of who you truly are.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

Understand your driving force, whether you're operating out of fear or love. When we operate in fear, we tend to hold back and not get the most from life. When we operate in love, we open new avenues and experience life more abundantly.

Amaka Imani Nkosazana

History is so comprehensive and detailed. I couldn't be a history student. I thought there was a time when I couldn't be a history maker, because of my limited understanding of what that meant. Today, thinking about the passing of Julian Bond and a wonderful conversation with a woman who has influenced so much, I think we all are history makers. All of our names will not be as known as Mr. Bond's or in books, but our names will be on someone's tongue and our memories will be in someone's heart, and we will all be a part of someone's personal story. We have a unique opportunity at this very second to change how we affect someone's life as living history and historians. Flaws and all. Yep.

Robin Caldwell

Life is a sacred shared-life.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I really don’t want to win. I just want to improve and be better than I was.

Debasish Mridha

Unfortunately we treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves and the rest will come naturally, like a Platinum Rule.

Erica Goros

Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.

Sharon Salzberg

A simple truth delivered in kindness may be the impetus that ignites a passionate fire in another’s soul and goes on to become the source of motivation for positive change.

Molly Friedenfeld

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

Larry Dossey

The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.

Sharon Salzberg

Thinking we are only supposed to have loving & compassionate feelings can be a terrible obstacle to spiritual practice.

Sharon Salzberg

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