Inspirational Quotes - Page 548

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Muriel Rukeyser

Everything's a risk. Not doing anything is a risk. It's up to you.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

Ovid

There's nothing wrong with you. There's a lot wrong with the world you live in. And definitely get out of high school and make everyone sorry.

Live today. Not yesterday. Not tomorrow. Just today. Inhabit your moments. Don’t rent them out to tomorrow. Do you know what you’re doing when you spend a moment wondering how things are going to turn out with Perry?You’re cheating yourself out of today. Today is calling to you, trying to get your attention, but you’re stuck on tomorrow, and today trickles away like water down a drain. You wake up the next morning and that today you wasted is gone forever. It’s now yesterday. Some of those moments may have had wonderful things in store for you , but now you’ll never know.

You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

Elizabeth Gilbert

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.

Charlie Chaplin

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

If you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.

Winston S. Churchill

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.

Martin Luther King Jr.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible.

Mildred D. Taylor

Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Albert Einstein

Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Seneca

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.

Miguel de Unamuno

All I can be is me- whoever that is.

Bob Dylan

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Malcolm X

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.

Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.

Frances Hodgson Burnett

I know that pain is the most important thing in the universes. Greater than survival, greater than love, greater even than the beauty it brings about. For without pain, there can be no pleasure. Without sadness, there can be no happiness. Without misery there can be no beauty. And without these, life is endless, hopeless, doomed and damned. Adult. You have become adult.

If you're horrible to me, I'm going to write a song about it, and you won't like it. That's how I operate.

The best discoveries always happened to the people who weren't looking for them.

To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?", Oct. 4, 1930)]

You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you.

Chuck Palahniuk

Behind every trial and sorrow that He makes us shoulder, God has a reason.

Khaled Hosseini

All The Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasLayin' In The Sun,Talkin' 'Bout The ThingsThey Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done...But All Those Woulda-Coulda-ShouldasAll Ran Away And HidFrom One Little Did.

Shel Silverstein

It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

But remember, boy, that a kind act can sometimes be as powerful as a sword.

If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it's not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever.

The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened.

Be melting snow.Wash yourself of yourself.

Jalaluddin Rumi

Life before Death.Strength before Weakness.Journey before Destination.

Brandon Sanderson

I'm unpredictable, I never know where I'm going until I get there, I'm so random, I'm always growing, learning, changing, I'm never the same person twice. But one thing you can be sure of about me; is I will always do exactly what I want to do.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

Christopher Paolini

Life is made of so many moments that mean nothing. Then one day, a single moment comes along to define every second that comes after. Such moments are tests of courage, of strength.

Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other

Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't "try" to do things. You simply "must" do things.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.

Eleanor Roosevelt

If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don't be afraid, and doors will open where you didn't know they were going to be.

Joseph Campbell

With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams,it is still a beautiful world.Be cheerful.Strive to be happy.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

The universe is big, its vast and complicated, and ridiculous. And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles. And that's the theory. Nine hundred years, never seen one yet, but this would do me.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.

Martin Luther King Jr.

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