Inspiration Quotes - Page 96

In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and turn into achievements and happiness.

Cassandra Shea

It's not about what I SEE for our future, or humanity; It's about what I DO for our future and humanity.

Steve Maraboli

What is more yours than what always holds you back?

James Richardson

Knowledge does not come to us by details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

Henry David Thoreau

Writing is the thing that props me up.

Horton Foote

People will find transformation and transcendence in a McDonald's hash brown if it's all they've got.

Patton Oswalt

Getting carried away is stupid, it won't get me anywhere.-Nana Komatsu

Ai Yazawa

Anguish is the universal language

Alice Fulton

When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not the stately shadows of the wood, the stillness of the place, and the awful gloom of this doomed cavern then strike you with the presence of a deity?

Seneca

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

Don Campbell

In life there is reality and there is what you want in life. If you took a moment to step back and forget about everything that is going on that doesn't really mean that much anyway, you might be able to figure out how to get what you want and what has been stopping you. For every problem there is a solution, for every... need God has provided the answer, and for every want there is a way. Reality is what you make it.

Joshua Hartzell

But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?

Paulo Lins

Stay present for the “now” of your life. It’s your “point of power.

Doug Dillon

Perhaps just to have loved was enough - just to have seen this world,and known it,through the eyes of love.

Rosie Alison

[Robert's eulogy at his brother, Ebon C. Ingersoll's grave. Even the great orator Robert Ingersoll was choked up with tears at the memory of his beloved brother]The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet, unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.Dear Friends: I am going to do that which the dead oft promised he would do for me.The loved and loving brother, husband, father, friend, died where manhood's morning almost touches noon, and while the shadows still were falling toward the west.He had not passed on life's highway the stone that marks the highest point; but, being weary for a moment, he lay down by the wayside, and, using his burden for a pillow, fell into that dreamless sleep that kisses down his eyelids still. While yet in love with life and raptured with the world, he passed to silence and pathetic dust.Yet, after all, it may be best, just in the happiest, sunniest hour of all the voyage, while eager winds are kissing every sail, to dash against the unseen rock, and in an instant hear the billows roar above a sunken ship. For whether in mid sea or 'mong the breakers of the farther shore, a wreck at last must mark the end of each and all. And every life, no matter if its every hour is rich with love and every moment jeweled with a joy, will, at its close, become a tragedy as sad and deep and dark as can be woven of the warp and woof of mystery and death.This brave and tender man in every storm of life was oak and rock; but in the sunshine he was vine and flower. He was the friend of all heroic souls. He climbed the heights, and left all superstitions far below, while on his forehead fell the golden dawning, of the grander day.He loved the beautiful, and was with color, form, and music touched to tears. He sided with the weak, the poor, and wronged, and lovingly gave alms. With loyal heart and with the purest hands he faithfully discharged all public trusts.He was a worshipper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place a temple, and all season, summer!' He believed that happiness was the only good, reason the only torch, justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest. He added to the sum of human joy; and were every one to whom he did some loving service to bring a blossom to his grave, he would sleep to-night beneath a wilderness of flowers.Life is a narrow vale between the cold and barren peaks of two eternities. We strive in vain to look beyond the heights. We cry aloud, and the only answer is the echo of our wailing cry. From the voiceless lips of the unreplying dead there comes no word; but in the night of death hope sees a star and listening love can hear the rustle of a wing.He who sleeps here, when dying, mistaking the approach of death for the return of health, whispered with his latest breath, 'I am better now.' Let us believe, in spite of doubts and dogmas, of fears and tears, that these dear words are true of all the countless dead.And now, to you, who have been chosen, from among the many men he loved, to do the last sad office for the dead, we give his sacred dust.Speech cannot contain our love. There was, there is, no gentler, stronger, manlier man.

Robert G. Ingersoll

When inspiration is silent reason tires quickly.

Roger Zelazny

Mëso të mos e shkatërrosh me fjalë atë çfarë ke ndërtuar me heshtje.

Charles Bukowski

Everyday of your life is a another lesson. If you learn the lesson well and apply it; whether positive or negative, you determine what happens in your tomorrow.

David Kofi Awusi

Seek your own answers in life, and not what others dictate to you.

Jemina Akhtar

We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.

Steven Pinker

The choice to make good choices is the best choice you can choose. Fail to make that choice and on most choices you will lose.

Ryan Lilly

Associate yourself with people who think positively. You cannot surround yourself with negative people and expect positive outcomes.

Roy Bennett

Live like there’s no tomorrow and learn as if your life depends on it

Omar Kiam

Focus on your goals, not your fear.

Roy Bennett

Forgiveness means letting go of the hope for a better past.

Lama Surya Das

To realize one's destiny is a person's only real obligation and when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

Have you realized that today is the tomorrow you talked about yesterday? It is your responsibility to change your life for the better.

Jaachynma N.E. Agu

When we are aware of our weaknesses or negative tendencies, we open the opportunity to work on them.

Allan Lokos

Man is a slow, sloppy, and brilliant thinker; computers are fast, accurate, and stupid.

John Pfeiffer

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

Sharon Salzberg

There is only one you for all time. Fearlessly be yourself.

Anthony Rapp

I learned long ago that when change comes, you gotta slow down and take note of it. In the midst of that change is all the possibility in the world.

Bertice Berry

Fear is what keeps the walls up, so open the gate and let what you want, in when you want

Joshua Wright

You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control the way you think about all the events. You always have a choice. You can choose to face them with a positive mental attitude.

Roy Bennett

As Dostoevski said: 'Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams.

Dorothy Day

To die is nothing, but to live with purpose and integrity, that's something

Elle Newmark

And the second [thing about the CBS EVENING NEWS that stands out in the mind of Michael J. Fox] was something Katie did later in the interview, as the drugs kicked in and the tremors segued into the jerkiness of dyskinesias. Somewhere in the contortions of making a point, my left arm detached the microphone clip from my jacket lapel. With no fuss and hardly a break in conversation or eye contact, she calmly leaned over and refastened it. Neither of us commented on it, but it was such an empathetic gesture, so far from anything patronizing or pitying, a simple kindness that allowed me the dignity to carry on making a point more important than the superficiality of my physical circumstance......One thing was abundantly clear though, whether or not she was able to forget how much she liked me: with that single act of consideration, she made it abundantly clear how much she loved her father.

Michael J. Fox

When I observe Gram, I see how fragile the notion of tradition can be. If I take my eyes off the way she kneads her Easter bread, or if I fail to study the way she sews a seam in suede, or if I lose the mental image I have of her when she negotiates a better deal with a button salesman, somehow, the very essence of her will be lost. When she goes, the responsibility for carrying on will fall to me. My mother says I’m the keeper of the flame, because I work here, and because I choose to live here. A flame is a very fragile thing, too, and there are times when I wonder if I’m the on who can keep it going.

Adriana Trigiani

One need not believe in Pallas Athena, the virgin goddess, to be overwhelmed by the Parthenon. Similarly, a man who rejects all dogmas, all theologies and all religious formulations of beliefs may still find Genesis the sublime book par excellence. Experiences and aspirations of which intimations may be found in Plato, Nietzsche, and Spinoza have found their most evocative expression in some sacred books. Since the Renaissance, Shakespeare, Rembrandt, Mozart, and a host of others have shown that this religious dimension can be experienced and communicated apart from any religious context. But that is no reason for closing my heart to Job's cry, or to Jeremiah's, or to the Second Isaiah. I do not read them as mere literature; rather, I read Sophocles and Shakespeare with all my being, too.

Walter Kaufmann

Consider what really makes up your self-worth—like your caring heart or your ability to stand tall in the face of adversity

Susan Bernstein

In a world so redolent with wonder, how can we allow ourselves to conduct our daily lives with so little insight, such absence of dignity?

Bruce Sterling

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

Ray Bradbury

I know a woman who gets tattoos all the time. She acquires new tattoos the way I might buy a new pair of earrings. She wakes up in the morning and announces, "I think I'll go get a new tattoo today." If you ask her what kind of tattoo she's planning on getting, she'll say casually, "I dunno….I'll figure it out when I get to the tattoo shop. Or I'll just let the artist surprise me."Now, this woman is not a teenager. She's a grown woman with adult children, and she runs a successful business. She's also really cool, uniquely beautiful, and one of the freest spirits I've ever met.When I asked her how she could mark up her body so casually and so permanently, she said, "Oh, but you misunderstand: It's not permanent! It's temporary."Confused, I asked, "You mean, all your tattoos are temporary?"She smiled like a sexy rock 'n roll Buddha and said, "No, honey. My tattoos are permanent — it's my BODY that's temporary. And so is yours. We're here on earth for a very short while. I just want to decorate my temporary self as playfully and beautifully as I can, while I still have time."I love this so much, I can't even tell you.I myself am not covered with tattoos. (Although I do have two of them. Before I went traveling for Eat, Pray, Love, I had two words written into my forearms in white ink: COURAGE and COMPASSION.) But I do want to live the most vividly decorated temporary life I can. I don't just mean physically. I mean emotionally, spiritual, intellectually. I don't want to be afraid of bright colors, or big love, or major decisions, or new experiences, or risky creative endeavors, or sudden changes, or even great failure.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The urge to create a fictional narrative is a mysterious one, and when an idea comes, the writer's sense of what a story wants to be is only vaguely visible through the penumbra of inspiration.

Adam Johnson

Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet it.

Barack Obama

In this walk to freedom, we must, without question obtain hearts of honesty and a tongue of truthfulness.

The Tru Sum

You alone have the power to determine your value. Don’t let somebody else paste a discount sticker on you. You’re priceless.

Toni Sorenson

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

Charlotte Eriksson

Cancer gave me an understanding of the point of all this. To survive. Most of our lives it is easy but for the moments when it becomes difficult, when accident or sickness or sadness strikes, it's just about remembering one thing. You must simply survive.

Shaun Hick

I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.

Jennifer Elisabeth

Don't try to follow trends. Create them.

Simon Zingerman

A child’s imaginary playmate just might actually be there.

Doug Dillon

The satisfactions/of agreement are/immediate as sugar--/a melting of the/granular, a syrup/that lingers, shared/not singular./Many prefer it.

Kay Ryan

Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game!

Babe Ruth

Don't be distracted by criticism. Remember ~ the only taste of success some people have is when they take a bite out of you.

Zig Ziglar

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.

Sharon Salzberg

To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.

Maurice Young

... human beings fear the unknown. So, whatever's freaking you out, grab it by the balls and say hello.

Justin Halpern

YOU are your love of a lifetime.

Steve Maraboli

I make music for ears, not eyes

Adele

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