Inspiration Quotes - Page 115

The troubles of this world pass, and what we have left is what we have made of our souls.

Every time you don't follow your inner guidance, you feel a loss of energy, loss of power, a sense of spiritual deadness.

Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.

Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and commit myself to - what is best for me.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.

No one is any more or any less important than you are.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and 90 percent how you respond to it.

As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

The key to successful leadership today is influence, not authority.

I don't like work... but I like what is in work - the chance to find yourself. Your own reality - for yourself, not for others - which no other man can ever know.

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe, to match your nature with Nature.

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

Don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t do something. Make your own victories. Make your own mistakes.

People may resist our advice, spurn our appeals, reject our suggestions, refuse our help, but they are powerless against our prayers.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master-gardener of his soul, the director of his life.

Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry.

You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.

Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all.