Inspirational Quotes - Page 550

Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.

There's so much to be grateful for, words are poor things.

Marilynne Robinson

There are two ways to reach me: by way of kisses or by way of the imagination. But there is a hierarchy: the kisses alone don't work.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

Albert Einstein

I never want to change so much that people can't recognize me.

Life sucks, and then you die...

Stephenie Meyer

You'll never find a rainbow if you're looking down

Charlie Chaplin

Not being heard is no reason for silence.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

Benjamin Franklin

Everybody is special. Everybody. Everybody is a hero, a lover, a fool, a villain. Everybody. Everybody has their story to tell.

The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Above all else, guard your heart for it affects everything else you do.

Anonymous

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside while still alive. Never surrender.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Swords can win territories but not hearts, forces can bend heads but not minds.

Mirza Tahir Ahmad

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Benjamin Franklin

Every day, think as you wake up, today I am fortunate to be alive, I have a precious human life, I am not going to waste it. I am going to use all my energies to develop myself, to expand my heart out to others; to achieve enlightenment for the benefit of all beings. I am going to have kind thoughts towards others, I am not going to get angry or think badly about others. I am going to benefit others as much as I can.

Because paper has more patience than people.

Love: a single word, a wispy thing, a word no bigger or longer than an edge. That's what it is: an edge; a razor. It draws up through the center of your life, cutting everything in two. Before and after. The rest of the world falls away on either side.

For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you.

Neil deGrasse Tyson

Ladies and gentlemen of the class of '97:Wear sunscreen.If I could offer you only one tip for the future, sunscreen would be it. The long-term benefits of sunscreen have been proved by scientists, whereas the rest of my advice has no basis more reliable than my own meandering experience. I will dispense this advice now.Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 p.m. on some idle Tuesday.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

L.M. Montgomery

We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents.

Bob Ross

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul, becomes their blood and self and purpose. That tale will move them and drive them and who knows that they might do because of it, because of your words. That is your role, your gift.

Erin Morgenstern

To love and win is the best thing.To love and lose, the next best.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Albert Einstein

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Confucius

Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.

Jalaluddin Rumi

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled.There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled.You feel it, don't you?

Jalaluddin Rumi

Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to do anything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart.

Chuck Palahniuk

A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego. The other wolf is good. he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you." The son thought about it for a minute and then asked, "Which wolf will win?" The old man replied simply, "The one you feed.

Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

Lao Tzu

Shoot for the moon, even if you fail, you'll land among the stars

All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts and made up of our thoughts. If a man speak or act with an evil thought, suffering follows him as the wheel follows the hoof of the beast that draws the wagon.... If a man speak or act with a good thought, happiness follows him like a shadow that never leaves him.

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

All thinking men are atheists.

Ernest Hemingway

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.

Eleanor Roosevelt

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

Galileo Galilei

there is a place in the heart thatwill never be filleda spaceand even during thebest momentsandthe greatest timestimeswe will know itwe will know itmore thaneverthere is a place in the heart thatwill never be filledandwe will waitandwaitin that space.

Charles Bukowski

We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these people kidding? Save the planet? We don't even know how to take care of ourselves; we haven't learned how to care for one another. We're gonna save the fuckin' planet? . . . And, by the way, there's nothing wrong with the planet in the first place. The planet is fine. The people are fucked! Compared with the people, the planet is doin' great. It's been here over four billion years . . . The planet isn't goin' anywhere, folks. We are! We're goin' away. Pack your shit, we're goin' away. And we won't leave much of a trace. Thank God for that. Nothing left. Maybe a little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, and we'll be gone. Another failed mutation; another closed-end biological mistake.

No matter how your heart is grieving, if you keep on believing, the dreams that you wish will come true.

Walt Disney Company

The real heroes anyway aren't the people doing things; the real heroes are the people NOTICING things, paying attention.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

You might as well answer the door, my child,the truth is furiously knocking.

Lucille Clifton

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

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