Inspiration Quotes - Page 119

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

Attaining lasting happiness requires that we enjoy the journey on our way toward a destination we deem valuable. Happiness is not about making it to the peak of the mountain nor is it about climbing aimlessly around the mountain; happiness is the experience of climbing toward the peak.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

I have come to believe that we do not walk alone in this life. There are others, fellow sojourners, whose journeys are interwoven with ours in seemingly random patterns, yet, in the end, have been carefully placed to reveal a remarkable tapestry. I believe God is the weaver at that loom.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.

Power doesn't have to show off. Power is confident, self-assuring, self-starting and self-stopping, self-warming and self-justifying. When you have it, you know it.

Love's gift cannot be given, it waits to be accepted.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

What good does it do me if Christ was born in Bethlehem once if he is not born again in my heart through faith?

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire; until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others, you will be neither successful nor happy.

Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you've got. Love it with a passion because life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.

All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force... We must assume behind this force the existence of a conscious and intelligent Mind. This Mind is the matrix of all matter.

An actor must interpret life, and in order to do so he must be willing to accept all experiences that life can offer.

You get whatever you expect to get. The only question is. What do you want?

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.